Activities for Monday, Oct. 5

Willow Room- MWF class

We are talking about apples and one of the children went apple picking this weekend, so he told us about it.

Our question today was, "What color apples do you like?" and our story today was The little red house with no doors and no windows, which is a verbal story that ends up with a surprise at the end. The "house" turns out to be an apple.

At our second circle time , we talked about the weather, the calendar and we did the fingerplay, "Two little apples smiled at me", which is about apples and emotions.

For our creative art today, we made apple prints using real apples. We had roller brushes with apple stencils at the easel.

We had number rings and pegs for counting and number recognition, magnetic letters and magnet boards for letter recognition and gluing collage materials for fine motor skills at the tables today. We also had many children enjoying the blocks, trucks, and trains.

We had an apple sorting game and sorted "apple" pompoms by color.

We did the "Silly dance contest" and "Face the facts" songs on CD's today for music.

We went out to the playground today.

Maple Room- MWF class

We read The little Mouse and the Big Red Apple " by A.H. Benjamin. For art today the children tore pieces of paper and glued them onto apple shapes- good fine motor activity as well as art activity, this helps children develop cutting skills.

We sang the "October song", animal action, ABC and Way up high in the apple tree.

We started the letter of the week today. Ask your child about the "Alphabet monster"

We went out to the playground today.

Children in the Maple Room: Please bring an apple on Wednesday, we will be cooking with them.


Oak Room

Our story today was "The little red house with no doors and no windows", which is a verbal story that ends up with a surprise at the end. The "house" turns out to be an apple.

The children cut up slices of apple for our applesauce which we got to enjoy the smell of in our room all morning and we got to eat at snack time. We also cut up pieces of the different kinds of apples the children brought in and did a taste comparison and graph of who liked which color apple best.

For music we did "Way up high in the apple tree", Animal sorting, and "A-P-P-L-E".

We talked about the sense of taste today and we tasted apples too.

We went outside today.