Apples

     Last week our school district had parent/teacher conferences.  We had class on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday with some days off for conferences.  We put up our Alphabet Museum Display for parents to view - next week we'll use it for some kindergarten learning and reflection too.
     I decided to use some of the Apple Science ideas from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits during our three teaching days last week.  Each child had an apple booklet to collect facts in (I only used one piece of construction paper and observations, facts, 5 senses observations, and one apple pocket to collect seeds).  My students were very successful using the booklet and loved taking their completed booklet home.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apple-Science-Interactive-Activities-1444752

     The observations we accomplished and the descriptions children came up with were fantastic!

kindergarten scientists!

     We also used one of the thinking prompt pictures from our Fall Fun Math & Literacy Lessons packet to write with.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Fun-Lessons-for-Kindergarten-Math-Literacy-1487487

This was a fun poem to read during the week

     As a closing activity for our apple study last week, I invited children to work as artists to make apple art.  I did a quick google image search of apples in art and checked to see if the screen was all appropriate for my kindergarten students.  Then, I projected the pictures and we talked about the various ways artists made pictures of apples.  Children then were able to choose crayons, colored pencils, markers or watercolors to make a piece of apple art.  I had some frame stickers to help the work become a sort of apple museum. Our museum turned out beautifully!

Apple Art

     Yours truly,
                                               Molly