The theme this week was apples. The children read and sang "Apple" and made a TLC apple core to illustrate this poem. We made a chart listing our schema or background knowledge about apples. We read many books about apples so that we could add to our schema. Apples and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons were two favorites. We are also leaning about the four seasons. With this in mind, Mrs. B made season wheel showing the seasons of an apple tree.
Each child brought in an apple and we talked about the ways our apples were alike and how they were different. We had an apple tasting day with apples for snack and then we made construction paper apples to show which we liked best. Tart, green Granny Smith apples were the favorite with red close behind.
We began learning about body parts and talked first about external parts like our skin, eyes, nose, mouth and ears. Then we began learning about some of our internal parts like the heart, lungs, and stomach. We are making scarecrows with all these body parts. We will continue to work on these next week. We will also continue the apple theme.
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