Apple Unit

We finished up our apple unit this week.  We had fun with our final "Apple Day" on Friday.  Here are some of the projects we did:

We made apple print and saw the apple stars.  We also made the mosaic apples.

We made a class apple book with my favorite type of apple page

 

Pin the stem on the apple

 

We made croc pot applesauce

 

 

We also made apple juice which the kids were amazed by using my Jack Lalanne Power Juice, which I love!

 

We also played pin the stem on the apple which the students thought was so funny.  We will also play pin the stem on the pumpkin in the fall.

 

Free:

 

free:

 

free:

 

 

only $1.00

 

Graphing what color of apple we brought to school:

 

 

 

 

Survived the First Week

Well I survived the first week of school.  Every year you forget what it is like to start off with a new batch, and you never know what to expect!  Next week we will be doing Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities as well as some color activities.  Time to start our daily learning routines.

Here are my new TPT products.  I've decided I need more literacy center ideas... still working on that.

 

 

 

Apple Colors Freebie

Freebie!

Literacy Centers

I would also like to do literacy groups.  I know the teachers in my home town do "The Daily Five" and they love it.  I created some literacy games that I thought about starting this year, but probably not at the beginning of the year.  I need to do some more research on how literacy centers work.

 

Mrs. Ricca's kindergarten has a lot of literacy center ideas that I have been looking into.

 

Here are some free centers that I have in the TPT store:

 

 

Again, these are some of my first centers I created so they aren't my best work- but they are FREE!  I use them in the fall when I do my farm units.  One of my favorite centers is write the room.  You will see this if you have visited my TPT store.  I have a write the room for about every subject.  They are great and super easy to use.  The kids love them too.  I just give them a clipboard and send them on their way.  It is fun to hide the clues around the room and make them really look for them.  I also let them use fun writing utensils from time to time.  I have some crazy pen with fathers, or even just mechanical pencils kids think are really great to add a new spice to the center.

 

This is a free one on my TPT sight.  Click below to be linked to print it.

 

 

I am pretty excited about my Brown Bear write the room I just created.  My class loves this story at the beginning of year- they easily learn to read it on their own!  It is great for our color unit!