Apple, Apples, and More Apples!

This week we took advantage of the time of season and 

learned all about...APPLES!  We took a trip to Brooksby 

Farm and had fun picking apples!  On Thursday we made 

homemade applesauce...I think I put a little too much 

cinnamon in it :(

Our Math Centers in the morning gave us practice in 

counting and pattering.  Children practiced counting by 

putting "apples" on their trees and matching cubes with dots

on their place.  They also practiced writing numbers with 

their apple booklet and pattering with pattern blocks.

Literacy Centers included the ABSeas game to practice 

letter recognition, Rhyming puzzles to work on our rhyming 

skills, handwriting, and our apple booklets.

Some other things we enjoyed doing this week were 

retelling The Three Little Pigs with felt pieces and using 

sequencing pictures to recall main events.  We also sang, 

The Monkeys and the Alligator which the children have a lot

of fun with!

That's all for now!!  Have a great weekend!

Some Pictures of Our Every Day Routine!

Last week I was not able to take many pictures because I 

had lent out my camera and it did not occur to me to use 

my cell phone!  I just recently upgraded from an archaic 

phone and more often than not forget what it is capable 

of!  Therefore,  I took some pictures on Monday of some of 

the activities we did last week and here they are!:

These are story telling pieces to help the children retell the

parts of a story and also practice letter recognition for the 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom story.  (Those are my little 

nephews feet in the picture, he was following me around 

when I was doing this, SO CUTE!)

Sorry this is upside down, we read Farmer Smart's Fat Cat.  

The children think this story is hilarious but it is also really 

good for talking about modesty and humility.

 We fed our Letter Monster foam letters and had to say the 

name and the sound as we fed him.

 These are our story posters, so far we have learned about 

characters and the setting.

That's all for now!  The post for this week will be up shortly 

with some more pictures!

All About Me Week

This week we focused a lot on learning about each other.  We 

made graphs about our hair color, family size, and talked 

about our favorite things.  We also made our "All About Me" 

books.  Beginning with just a few centers, we began our 

center rotations involving silent reading, pom pom letters, 

and our book pages.  Reader's Workshop was introduced 

using Kim Adsit's reading approaches (love!) and the 

students learned how to treat books with care and how to 

properly read during reader's workshop.  Here are a few 

pictures for you to enjoy! :)

Welcome to Kindergarten!

We had a great first week in kindergarten!  The children 

were fast friends and were so fun to have in class! As 

always, the first week seemed to fly by and we did A LOT of

things to get acclimated to the start of the year.  We 

worked on things such as rules of the classroom, navigating 

through the classroom and the school, manners, and 

learning names and a little bit about each other.  All the 

children caught on to the routine quite quickly and I am so 

happy with all we accomplished this week.  Here are some 

pictures from this week...

In this picture, they are working on a picnic plate activity to

 decorate the bulletin board in the classroom!

 

 We read David Goes to School by David Shannon to talk 

about good behavior in school.  We made a poster and 

talked about the difference between peacemakers and 

peacebreakers. I got this idea from another teacher's blog 

and I think the little David people the kids made came out 

so cute!

The board in the hallway is displaying our "First Day of 

School" booklets!  Soon I will add an "All About Me" to each 

child so we can learn a little more about them!

I am going to take a wild guess and say I think this next 

picture displays one of their favorite things we did this 

week! During circle time we sang the song "Tooty Ta" and 

had fun looking very silly!!

I hope you enjoyed a few pictures of our week!  I can't wait 

for more fun things next week!