Our first theme is: Apples. We hope that this unit will last a couple of weeks including a trip to the apple orchard to pick apples (like we did last year), a trip to the grocery store for apples and perhaps a farm stand to pick apples up.
Today I introduced 'circle time' where we are learning about the calendar. We went over the month, day, number of the day and year. We sang some songs and did some fingerplays and dances. I started to read our book: Apples by Gail Gibbons. they already know lots about apples but we are going to expand it to include the colors of apples, into science, math, art, language arts, and other areas of life. After a short time, Ben started to lose interest and Noah was climbing all over me so we decided that it was time to take a break. Hannah loved it.
The next period of time: play time. They experimented with dirt and water, ate snacks, played together as well as individually. They played with blocks, building towers, and
Then we did art: We prepared some watercolored papers for our art project. This will last us a couple of days so be sure to watch the progression of the project. Today was painting with water colors to cover several pages of paper.
Today I introduced 'circle time' where we are learning about the calendar. We went over the month, day, number of the day and year. We sang some songs and did some fingerplays and dances. I started to read our book: Apples by Gail Gibbons. they already know lots about apples but we are going to expand it to include the colors of apples, into science, math, art, language arts, and other areas of life. After a short time, Ben started to lose interest and Noah was climbing all over me so we decided that it was time to take a break. Hannah loved it.
The next period of time: play time. They experimented with dirt and water, ate snacks, played together as well as individually. They played with blocks, building towers, and
Then we did art: We prepared some watercolored papers for our art project. This will last us a couple of days so be sure to watch the progression of the project. Today was painting with water colors to cover several pages of paper.
Ben painting
Hannah painting
As a conclusion to the day we went over what we did in school. They told me their favorite parts of the day and then we read a little more about apples from our book (above). Ben loved the painting and Hannah loved the circle time.
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