September 10th-14th...

This week was all about Chicka Chicka 123, by Bill Martin Jr.. So we learned a lot about numbers, our names (how to recognize them) and apples/apple trees.

Here are a few of the things we did:
-We read "Chicka Chicka 123" and used number magnets to help us tell the story.
-We experimented with an apple, we put one apple slice in milk, one in water and one in lemon juice.  Then we watched which one stayed fresh the longest and which one turned brown the fastest.
-We made an appleseed counting book.
-We made mini apple pies and ate them for snack, with vanilla ice cream.
-We made name necklaces with letter beads. 
-We sang "one little, two little, three little apples.  Four little, five little, six little apples.  Seven little, eight little, nine little apples...Delicious as can be "Crunch" (to the tune of 10 little Indians).
-We had apples, string cheese and graham crackers for snack-Thank You Mr. J.
-We had granola bars, circus animal crackers, and peaches.  Yum-Thank You Miss E.
-We made an apple tree and filled it with number stickers. Just like the story.
-We painted an apple tree and colored apples in the tree.
-We played duck, duck-goose during recess on the trampoline.
-We colored with side walk chalk during recess.
-We played with the bubble machine and popped them all during recess.
-Everyone had a turn doing their 1st or 2nd show and tell.
-We learned the first line to the Pledge of Allegiance " I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag".
-We learned many new songs about: Tiny Tim, 10 Little Bears in the Bed, 5 Little Ducks went out to play, September, Counting by 10's, 5 Little Monkeys swinging in the tree, etc...
-We played lots of name games: recgonized our names in a graph, recognizing our names in a song and recognizing our names on cards.

Next week is all about:
The Letter A, upper case and lowercase, its sound and how to write it.
Apples
Sightword-a
Shape-Circle

I am having so much fun teaching your children,
                                                                      -Miss Heidi