Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed's birthday was September 26th. To celebrate this important American historical figure we took time on his birthday to have some apple fun! 

Cooking Lessons Ms. Adams' style.....

As soon as we arrived to school, we started cooking our Applesauce. 

Vista of Elgin's Cinnamon Applesauce 

26 Apples, diced

3 cups of water

1 cup of sugar

3 or 4 BIG dashes of Cinnamon

Place all ingredients into a Crock-pot  Cook for 5.5 hours. Check and stir as needed. Serve in plastic cups and mash to desired applesauce consistency. Enjoy! 

Meanwhile, back in Ms. Adams' classroom..... :) 

We each used Crayon Kids to help us color our apple persons and practice our fine motor skills

We used Sally Scissors to cut and Glue Gal to Glue.

We smiled for the camera.

 We did an apple tasting science experiment. We predicted which apple would taste the best. We tasted three different apples (red, green, yellow).  Individually, we recorded the order in which apple we enjoyed each apple on our worksheet.  After we made a class graph of which apple we enjoyed the most. (The graph is on display in the hallway; picture to be added later).  We compared and contrasted our findings in a group discussion.

We are scientists for a day.... 

and photogenic mathematicians.

By this time, the applesauce was smelling fantastically wonderful.  We were getting anixous.  We had lots of apples left so using some tempra paint we stamed apple prints.  We were excited to see the star stamped on many of our papers.  First we did a creative art stamping for take home.  Then we showed off our math skills and created an apple color pattern for hallway display.

Later, we tried our Applesauce....We smashed the cooked apples; it tasted good; it was really warm. 

math lesson

Completed Math Graph 

big and small shapes. 

 Posing! 

 Cheezin' 

Proud of our VERY first Classroom Graph! Go Kindergartners!

Getting into the swing of things.....

Wow.  The weeks have really flown by.  I can't believe Oct. 4th marks the end of the first six weeks for my Kindergarten bunch.  We have fallen more into our daily schedules and the kids seem to be enjoying school so much!  Here is what we have been up to since the last post.....

 Computer Time 

 *Starfall.com*

Getting organized and practicing sorting!! 

Paper Sort 

Center  

The kids added some fun and dramatic play. Each kid was in charge of a  "color factory". 

Happy Factory Workers! 

Building Business and Social skills

Talking over the new franchise business plan over a quick bite to eat.

 Reading Tent  

The claw mitten is for pointing to 

words or letters in books.

Texture

We studied our 5 senses.  This activity was geared toward exploring our sense of Touch. Soft, smooth, rough, bumpy and hard were the textures we explored. We traced around our hand in pencil, then traced again in marker, and used Glue Gal to paste items on our hands. 

 I did it!! 

 ....and we took silly pictures with seatmates.

"We're done and ready for recess!" 

 Proud of ourselves :) 

 "Hey! I'm working hard!" 

 $ % * Math Time + - /

We are using our Bridges Math. Math sorting lesson and workplaces.  We <3 workplaces!

 Sorting big and small shapes is serious business. ;)

 I think I can fit my shape right here...

 Self correcting  It is a BIG shape! :)

That's a Rap... Ms. Adams! 

 Let's race to see who can put the shape in the pocket chart the quickest!

 PHOTO BOMB! :) 

Check out that looooong tower!

 WoRkInG ToGeThEr! 

Ten Frames and Bug Center.

 I'm rocking the Geoboards.. and HAPPY!

Look I can see you through our Shapes 

Ms. Adams!!!!! 

Fine Motor Skill Practice with Marker Man

Cute!!!

No!!! David! Activity

Cutting out David was challenging. 

David has sooo many body parts!!  I'm going to cut very slowly and place all cut pieces in my box. :)

 We spread out all over the classroom, so maybe we didn't lose David's noses, arms, or ears.

 Cutting 

 Cutting

 This is the way..... 

 we use Sally Scissors

 Big Grin!!! 

 I'm VERY busy! Take my picture, but be quick, 

so I can go back to working hard! 

 David's arms have to be just right. I am cutting oh so carefully! :) 

Play-Doh Spelling

at, an, ax, am, a, 

New Math workplace: PATTERN BLOCKS

We are practicing sharing classroom materials, as well as displaying one-to-one correspondence 

while making creative designs.

 Look! Two trapezoids equal one big hexagon! 

Shaving Cream Spelling

Thank You Mrs. Powell for donating the cream  We had a lot of FUN spelling! 

hat, cat, mat, sat, bat and, 

 Our desks were super clean for Friday's Spelling Test!

 At school, we have David and our 5 sense Texture on display in the Kindergarten hallway.  

We also have our first cut and paste activity tacked on wall in the classroom.  

Our Chester Raccoon faces are hanging in the classroom too! 

When you drop off come take a look!