APPLES APPLES and more APPLES!

 

This week we read the book How Do Apples Grow.  

We already knew a lot about apples before reading this book, but we learned a few new things too. Did you know the seeds of an apple are called a pip?  Did you know that when you are eating an apple you are actually eating part of a flower?  These were just some of the facts that we learned when reading this book.   

On Friday, we sampled 3 types of apples.  

Red: Gala

Yellow: Golden Delicious

Green: Granny Smith.  

After sampling the apples, we created a graph that showed our favorites.  Ask your child which apple was our classes favorite.

Later in the day we read the book How to Grow and Apple Pie and See the World.  

After reading this book we made our own version of an apple pie, apple turnovers. Ask your child if they liked their turnover.

Here we are making our turnovers...

Here we are after they were done baking....

It was a great and delicious week to be in first grade!

First Day Fun

Today we started our day off by listening to the story Our Class is a Family. 

We discussed how we support, respect and work together.  We made our class promise and friendship bracelets to help us remember what that promise is.  

We learned and practiced many routines so our days will be fun and predictable.  Most of all we spent some time getting to know each other.  We did a friend scavenger hunt.  Our first few weeks of first grade will be all about getting to know each other and the expectations of first grade.  

I know that we are going to have a great year!

 

Hatching Ducks Day 7

Wednesday, April 15th, marked the 7th day of incubation!  This was a very important day because today we got to candle our eggs to see if the baby ducks are developing. 

To candle the eggs, we shone a light inside the egg.  We knew that on day 7, we should see a small black spot in the middle and veins. 

We were thrilled to see that 5 of our 7 eggs are developing as they should! 

We will candle our eggs again on day 14 to see if the eggs are still developing.  We would expect to see a much larger baby duckling in the center, lots of movement, and some veins will still be visible.

Ask your child to share what they saw with you.

We LOVE Cheese Pizza

This week, we read the story, I Love You and Cheese Pizza.  

We were inspired to write reasons we love our class and make cards for our friends.  We practiced sorting long and short vowel pictures with a fun pizza craftivity.  

On Thursday, we made our own mini cheese pizzas!  Some of us made them in the traditional circle shape, others in a heart shape, and we even had one morel-mushroom-shaped pizza!  No matter the shape, we LOVED our cheese pizzas!

Moon Phases

 We read the story The Moon Seems to Change Shape.  This story explains to us why the moon goes from a full moon, to a sliver, to nothing.  Click on the book to hear this story. 

The moon phases can be a bit confusing, so to help make this less confusing we made the moon phases out of Oreo cookies!  This was so much fun and super YUMMY!

Check out these adorable smiles!