All About Apples!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Columbus Day weekend.  This week was all about apples.  During morning choice some friends painted apples on trees using Q-tips, dotting red, yellow and green apples on a picture of a tree.  Both groups had an apple tasting and the green apple won for best taste over a red and yellow ones.  Some children shouted out that apples are “delicious and yummy!”  Later in the week we peeled apples with a hand cranked peeler and then cooked the apples to make delicious apple sauce!

The preschoolers read the book "Ten Apples On Top" by Dr. Seuss and the children made a neat mathematical picture, rolling the dice to find out how many apples to put on top of their lion. This activity also incorporated one-to-one correspondence while counting up to ten.  Together with the Pre-K class, Mrs. M did a special apple seed experiment. We explored the question, "What will happen when we put apple seeds in water?"  Will they sink? Will they float? First the seeds sank, then we experimented with baking soda and vinegar. The children were so excited to see the apple seeds float and dance around!

Pre-K sang the song "Farmer Brown Had Five Red Apples Hanging from the Tree" and played pin the apple on the tree.  The  children (and myself!) all took a turn being blind folded and tried to place the big apple on the tree, but the apples ended up in some pretty funny places including Farmer Brown's head, cheeks, and even on the classroom calendar!  We made three dimensional apple trees using green and red tissue paper crunched up and glued to the tree and falling to the ground and finally they used a brown crayon to color the tree's trunk.  We also learned to spell and trace the word "BANANA." Some children said “what a big word,” but they were happy to learn how fun it is to spell.  We got some nice feedback from SEE parents that they really enjoyed listening to and watching their Pre-Ker's spelling. 

In Ms. Marybeth movement class the children transformed into autumn trees and leaves.  Everyone had a leaf and sang a song about leaves twirling and swirling gently to the ground.  They also took turns swirling beautiful rhythmic ribbons.

Mr. Ed came on Thursday, singing and playing his guitar to lots of apple and banana songs.  He also sang about pumpkins, Halloween, and, of course, the children had lots of fun shaking their sillies out. 

It was a short week filled with delicious apple smells, tastes and learning about the whole apple from skin to seeds!  

What's up next?

Next week is all about pumpkin explorations and the color of the week will be orange.

Upcoming Dates and Reminders:

October 22: Trunk-or-Treat at SEE! See your Evite for more details and for instructions on how to sign up!
November 1: November tuition is due
November 11: SEE is closed in observance of Veteran's Day
November 23: SEE closes at 3:00pm
November 24-25: SEE is closed for the Thanksgiving holiday

Pictures from the week:

Peeling apples to make applesauce

Making three dimensional apple trees

Learning to spell, trace and paint the word "banana"

Friends working hard with supervision from Wegman's "foreman"

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Pauline