Thursday, September 29, 2011

Check out our Apples up above our heads!!!

Apples...RED, GREEN, and YELLOW!




This week we have been discussing and exploring apples!! We started off the week with our WR (Weekly Reader), "I like apples". We read a great book about apples by Gail Gibbons and of course....we read about Johnny Appleseed. We had a couple of painting projects this week. The first one is of an apple tree and it shows 3 different colors of apples. We made the apples with our fingers.....SO FUN. And then we put the letters of our name on the trunk of the apple tree...like a puzzle! Our second painting project was with a REAL apple. We cut it in half and then made a stamp out of it. After our paintings dried the older students took parts of the apple and put the seeds and a stem on one of them. (RRR in effect) They look awesome and we are so proud of them. Do you know what shape the seeds are in when you cut the apple in half?? Ask your little one (answer: star...just in case). We had a tasting of different apples and colored our apple to show which was our favorite. Check out what we thought about them...Mrs. Brandy wrote our description for us!! Enjoy the pictures share them with your children (and grandparents too)! Please take some time to read and go over their week with them...I am sure they will be happy to tell you all about it. Next week we will be talking about FALL. So happy it is finally here!