Bushel of Fun!

We did a lot of learning with APPLES and PUMPKINS this week!

This week, our shared reading was about apples!

This predictable chart helped us learn the work like and our color words!

 Then we completed our own version of the chart to practice writing the word like and practice reading!

 Whenever charts like these come home, have your child read it to you with his/her reading finger.  Keep it to read often!

Then we made homemade applesauce with our apples from the orchard!

We peeled, cored, and cut the apples, mixing it together with water, cinnamon, and brown sugar.  It cooked most of the day in a crock-pot and then YUM! :)

Each child completed a sequencing activity about the process:

We read some non-fiction texts about pumpkins:

 Again, whenever texts like these come home, read them together! 

This text was a great introduction to beginning sound sorts, a phonics activity will we continue to work on this month.  We sorted words that begin with P and words that begin with N.

We thought of words to describe pumpkins:

We also did a lot of MATH activities with our apples and pumpkins:
* We tasted red, yellow, and green apples and graphed which one we liked most!
* We measured how tall our apples and pumpkins were with unifix cubes!

* We weighed our apples!
* We sorted our pumpkins by size and graphed our results:

We also learned about how pumpkins grow - the pumpkin life cycle!
We read these books:

Then each student completed their own life cycle chart!

We also explored the parts of a pumpkin: shell, stem, flesh, pulp, and seeds.  And we got a little messy:

Sorry if your child came home with a little pumpkin on their costume!

Last but not least, here are some pictures from our field trip!

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