Preschool 9/22

Theme: Apples, Day 2

Circle Time

Read books '10 Apples Up on Top' & 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?'.

Showed them 3 different apples - Red Delicious, Granny Smith & Honey Crisp. Then discussed how they were different or the same. Also what they thought they would taste like.

I showed them this color matching game and all 4 of them worked together to match the apples:

Centers

We continued with the same activities as earlier in the week.

Snack / Science

Taste tested the apples that we talked about in Circle Time earlier today. They liked guessing what each would taste like, trying the different kinds and giving their opinions afterwards.

Art Time

With my help we painted each of their arms to look like tree's and then they dipped the eraser end of a pencil in red paint to dot apples on their tree. They all stayed pretty interested in this activity.

Tatum's work of art:

We didn't have outside time today as we were pretty busy inside most of the morning. We drew apple tree's in our journals, played Candyland and Hullaballo.

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After school ended we celebrated Lola and Megan's birthdays with a fun lunch & cupcakes. My friend Candace came over with her little ones Maya & Sean. The kids played outside for awhile before eating lunch.

Then we had cupcakes & Megan opened some presents from her friends. It was a fun day indeed!

Preschool 9/20

Our theme this week was APPLES.

Letters: A & B

Numbers: 1 & 2

Color: Red

Circle Time

After doing our usual calendar, weather, songs and Pledge of Allegiance, we read the books 'Apples' & ' Llama Llama Red Pajama'. We talked all about apples - colors, taste, texture & what kinds of food we can make with them.

Centers

The kids worked great together this week in centers! Megan and Tatum scooping and sorting pom-poms.

Lola and Isaiah loved the animal hospital & using keys to open each door. They were great at taking turns.
Pounding the foam alphabet puzzle pieces in.
More animal hospital.

We also explored the geoboard with rubber bands. No pictures of it but they liked putting the different colored bands on.

Snack

We made cinnamon apples! I had diced some up earlier and they scooped them out of the bowl into a baggie, sprinkled cinnamon in and shook it up.

They all gobbled them right up!

Art Time

Torn apples! Ripping paper and gluing. Nice face Megs.

Showing off their work. :)

Games

We tried playing Hide & Seek with the apple and took turns while each child got a turn to hide the apple. I don't think any of them understood the point because they would each hide it in the same place as the person before them. Then when we would go into the room to find it, the hider would announce and show us where it was. I was laughing so hard because it was so silly!

We also had some fun with the musical instruments. Isaiah really got into the guitar. :)