Apples

On Tuesday our read aloud was Ten Apples Up On Top.  This silly story offered us many opportunities to find rhyming words, like drop and top, tall, and fall, town and down.  At center time the children at my center drew a picture of themselves.  We took our time and made sure we had two eyes, a nose, a mouth, two ears, hair, and even eyebrows.  We also talked about the color of our hair and eyes.  Next the children were each given a number.  They traced over their number and then counted out the corresponding number of apples.  Lastly, they glued their apples to the top of their faces.  I am going to assemble each child's page into a class book.

The children made an apple tree.  They cut out a trunk and leaves, glued them onto a piece of paper, and then made apples with paint and the eraser end of a pencil. 

Today the children made the "L" page for the ABC book that they are making.  They also worked on one-to-one correspondence to finger paint apples.  In the writing center I showed them how to make books.  At the iPads they visited the Starfall app.