Fall and leaves!

I brought in a bunch of leaves from my yard. We sorted the leaves by color then I put them in a pile and introduced the graph. I called each student up to pick a leaf then they had to tell me the color then place it on the graph. This was a great whole group activity. I teach in an inner city school so there is a limited access for these children to nature so they thought it was so neat I had all these leaves... Little do they know I have a yard full of them times a million! ( I live in a suburb 20 min away)

Happy Fall!

Apple fun

I printed 3 of these mats off from www.childcarelearning.com then colored them in to make a red apple tree,yellow apple tree and a green apple tree to go along with our taste test. The students have been working hard to roll the play dough into small "apples".
I also have a math apple tree where they count the apples to match the number on the trunk of the tree. The apples are Pom poms. (will post picture later)

Which apple do you LIKE best?

We are learning the sight word "like" and about apples. We did a taste test of a red apple, a yellow apple and a green apple then each student chose which on they liked best. We made a graph and talked about which one we liked MOST and LEAST. Each student then decorated an apple with tissue paper corresponding to the color apple they liked best. Each student also did an "apple print" with that color as well. I put them together onto the large bulletin board in our room.

We would help the Little Red Hen

In Our class we read several versions of The Little Red Hen and retold the story each time we read one. We talked about how each version was similar and how they were different. Each time we would talk about helping others. We watched a video on YouTube of a cartoon version as well. We finished up with a cute craft activity which was about gluing different shapes together to make a little red hen.