10 Apples Up On Top; Apple Orchard

10 Apples Up On Top!

We read the Book 10 Apples Up On Top, and took our pretend apples to see if we could balance an apple on our heads or not. Then we cut out a picture of ourselves and stacked 10 apples on top of our heads. 

Here's a fun You Tube video of 10 Apples Up On Top

Apple Orchard

We took a field trip on Friday to Holmberg's Orchard. Johnny Appleseed gave us a tour and we learned about apples from him, how many apple trees they have at the orchard, what kinds of apples they have, most apples have 10 seeds and how when you can see the star when you cut them the opposite way, how they pick the apples, why they keep them cold, how they wash/sort the apples. We even sang Happy Birthday to him!  

Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed! We made our Johnny Appleseed hats from Funshine

Little People Haunted House!

Just had to share the Little People Haunted House I did over the weekend. I took an old Little People house, washed it up and wiped it down with paint thinner. Then applied plastic spray paint primer followed by black spray paint. Once that dried, I took paint markers and decorated it up. Sprayed a clear coat of spray paint ove the top of that and let it dry. Followed by some felt stickers and misc. Halloween stickers I picked up over the weekend. 

Apples

Here's a little bit about what we have been doing this past week! We are looking forward to our trip to the apple orchard on Friay:) 

 Painting with red on the easel 

LITERACY

Apple Flannel Board Stories:

 Way Up High In the Apple Tree and Apple Tree

The kids loved writing a story, this was a suggested activity from Funshine. They helped me fill in the blanks and I will say I was impressed that they did so good! We are definately going to have to do more of these! 

 Here is an activity that we've been doing to help with name recgonition. The song goes, "If your name is on the tree, pick it please. If your name is on the tree, pick it please.."

MATH

 

This was a game from Funshine, we had to match up the seeds to the number. We concentrated on the numbers 1-3 as those are our numbers for the month. 

 

We also played the Where's the Worm? game from Funshine. We had to turn over the apple cards and try to find the worms. 

SCIENCE:

Checking out an apple and describing the apple. We also tasted the apple!

 

ART

The cute apple/worm puppet from Funshine! The kids loved having the worm on their fingers. The other is just a worm and an apple

We decorated felt shaped leaves to hang up for our fall bunting... I think it turned out pretty cute!

 We worked on our name recgonition by putting circle (shape of the month!) stickers on the first letter of our name

 

This is one of our annual projects that we do! Way Up High in the Apple Tree...

 Making apple pies from Funshine

We talked about the different seasons for an apple tree and made this cute little project.

Attempted to have the kids try weaving from our Funshine supplies. It was too hard for them to do but we will keep working at it!

Letter B

Letter B

 We made our capital B's into bows. I purchased the pattern from Laura @ Teachers Pay Teachers

 Another simple way to help with learning is to write letters/shapes/numbers in their ketchup and ranch! My kiddos love it! It's supposed to be a B and a circle!

Our B journal pages that was included in the September box from Funshine. 

It was suggested for the September curriculum on letter B from Funshine to have the kids pass a ball and practice saying /b/ sound.

Apples

We started Funshine's theme on Apples today! I know this is going to be a great two weeks... I love this theme, so many fun extender ideas to do with it.  

Books, books and more books! Here's a few books we will be reading the next two weeks. I also took the suggested list from Funshine and requested them from my local library. 

Apple Picking Sensory Table

The bottom is black beans, then I took a paper towel tube and cut a slit in it and added the tree out of cardboard that I had already painted. The "apples" are pom poms with velcro dots. They can pick the apples from the tree and put it in the basket!

Orchard Trees 

The orchard trees were included in the September box from Funshine. First, we painted the apples onto the green paper with a clothespin and a pom pom dipped in red paint. Once that dried we cut out our tree and then I had already taped together the trunk and cut a slit on the top so the tree could sit on the trunk. 

Apple Trees

To make these, we simply traced our arms/hand onto brown construction paper and then glued on a green tree cutout and finally used a clothespin with a pom pom dipped into red paint to make our apples.

Pass the Apple

The game of "Pass the Apple" was suggested from Funshine. They had a BLAST with it! Instead of playing "hot potato", we played "pass the apple". It did take them awhile to catch on, but once they figured it out, they didn't want to stop! 

Apple Picking

We also had fun with this suggested activity from Funshine, Ahead of time, I gathered enough baskets for them to each have one and then all my play apples and laid them out on the floor, It goes like this:                            Let's go apple picking today! Grab your basket and get in the car! (pick up the basket and pretend to clumb in a car. Pretend to drive and steer.)             Wow! Here we are! That was a long trip! (get out of the car and stretch.)      Look at all the apples! Let's pick some and put them in your basket. You might have to climb for some! (Pretend to reach and pick apples. Place them in the basket. Pretend to climb a tree.)                                                     Is your basket heavy? Mine is! Let's taste an apple. Yum! (Pretend basket is heavy. Pretend to munch on an apple.)

Once we were done with the above song of picking apples, we took our baskets and sorted them into colors, red and green and which basket did we think had more. Then we counted the apples. There was only 15 green apples and 26 red apples! 

Last but not least, we made patterns with the green and red apples!