We are working on a fun classroom door project which required us to turn ourselves into apples. Just for fun, we wanted to know if you were able to pick out your little apple.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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