All About Apple Trees

This morning the Touch and Feel was full of ping pong balls and cooking utensils.  Although it didn't exactly go with the theme for the week, the kids sure enjoyed counting and tossing and catching. 

During morning circle, we celebrated our first birthdays of the year.  Tim and Theo turn 4 years old this weekend, so we sang Happy Birthday and did a celebration cheer.  The boys were so happy and all their friends were excited to share in the fun!

 Ms. Abby came today with LOTS of activities to practice balancing.  First, the kids balanced a bean bag on their head while walking around a series of cones.  They all had great difficulty letting the bean bag REST on their head....as opposed to HOLDING it there.  The next thing was a long path of beams, all different widths, that the kids had to walk along.  Some were raised off the ground and curvy, while others were narrow and laying on the ground.  Once they completed the beams....they ran to the end and jumped over a small hurdle.  We ended with a game of "Copy Cat" where Ms. Abby named a body part and the kids had to balance their bean bag on the body part.  For example, they put the bean bag on their shoulder, on their knee, on their back, and on their noses.  It's really hard to balance when you are laughing at your friends!!

 

 

 

Our story today was Ducking for Apples by Lynne Berry.  In this rhyming story, a group of young ducks are celebrating a beautiful autumn day by hopping on their bikes, without  training wheels, and riding to an apple tree where they pick apples for pie and cake. They return home where they bake and eat their dessert and, exhausted and content, curl up on the rug and drift off to sleep for a nap.

 

 For art, we made our very own apple trees. The kids painted the tree top green, glued on a brown trunk, and added some red fingerprint apples.  Some trees had MANY more apples than others....and a few apples even fell down on the tree trunk....either way....they sure were cute!  And unbelievably, not as messy as our painting activities from the beginning of the year.  We celebrate all forms of progress around here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

No school for the rest of the week.  It's conference time....I'm so excited to share with you the things your child has learned so far!  You will all be so pleased!!