Activities for Wednesday, Oct. 7

Willow Room- MWF class

Our story today was "10 apples up on top" by Theo LeSieg, and we made apple tree pictures for art. We had tree shapes cut out of green construction paper and made red apple shapes using corks dipped in red paint.

At the easel we made "apple seed pictures" by using special rollers which only made dots, black paint and red construction paper, so it ended up looking like little black apple seeds on the paper.

Our circle time question today was " Have you ever gone apple picking? yes or no?

Some of our table activities today were alphabet beads, magnetic letters and magnet board, shape peg boards, and color match board. We also had a special activity of matching the apple to the correct color tree.

We went outside to the playground today.

Our music was "couch potato pokey" , "the apple tree", and "skinnamarink".

We did a fun apple rhyme today- Five little apples sitting in a tree, teasing Mr. worm, you can't catch me. Along came a worm, as quiet as can be, CRUNCH!" Then you count down, 4, 3, 2, 1 apples. The childrne loved it.


Maple Room- MWF class: "The mouse and the apple" by Stephen Butler . We made some props to go with the story and used them to have the children retell the story with the props. They did a great job of remembering what came next which is great for comprehension. We then left the props out during choice time so the children could retell the story.

We made applesauce from scratch using apples the children brought to school. We also did a taste test to find out what color apple children liked the flavor of best.

At the easel we had apple shapes stencils with paint.

We went to the playground today.

Our music today was our "October song", "A-P-P-L-E" (which is like the song "B-I-N-G-O.") "Today is..." and Pass the Apple (like musical chairs)

We did some letter "A" activities today.


Oak Room:

Our story today was "I wish I had duck feet" by Theo LeSieg

We were talking about the sense of touch today and we fingerpainted with sand added to the paint to help understand the sense of touch. We also worked in our journals today- we drew pictures that begin with the letter "d".

We were so busy with everything else we did not get music in today.

we went outside to the playground.

We had a "feely box" today since we are talking about the sense of touch. The child puts their hand in the box and feels what is inside and tries to guess what it is without looking.