Applicious

Apple day was a success!  

My little kinders had so much fun rotating 

through all of the apple related learning centers.  

At my station, we tasted four different kinds of apples

 then made a graph of our favorites.

  We tried red and golden delicious, granny smith and pink lady varieties.

Pink ladies were the clear winner!

Here's a cute shot of Andy being super silly while tasting a red delicious!

 Ashton's mom helped at the fine motor center, where Markie and Brianna were hard at work tearing paper to make an apple craft we hung in the hallway outside our door.

Ashton is stamping numbers with a bingo marker at Mrs. Harverson's station.  

Our awesome classroom aide helped the kiddos make a class book

 of our own version of 10 Apples Up On Top. 

After they finished making their book page, she pulled apple numbers from a bucket

 and the kiddos had to locate that number on their page and stamp it!

Rileigh's mommy helped Jayson and Mallory at her center.  

Here the kids had to stamp their fingerprints onto apple trees

 to go with a cute poem. 

 Theses crafts are coming home on Monday :)

In all the hustle and bustle of Apple Day,

 I forgot to snap a photo of Cayden's mom and aunt

helping the kids make a really cute book called Apple Faces.  

A big thank you to all the parents that came in to help and to all of you that sent in apple treats and paper goods.  Our first little party would not have been such a success without your help!

Blog Password : apples

Corino's Cuties in Full Color

This week we worked on color words.  We read some really great books about color.   We read Pete the Cat again....boy do they love that story.  I'll have to admit that I love it too!  The message it sends about not getting upset when you make a mistake is a really good one for kinders and grown-ups alike!  "Did Pete cry?  Goodness no! 
 He kept walking a long singing his song.....cause it's all good!"

 The kiddos also really liked Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd.  We are working on a class book to go along with it.  While I had a group with me working on their book page, the other kids were able to work independantly at other fun centers.  This gave them a little taste of what's to come once we build our stamina up to 15 minutes of Read to Self for the Daily 5 block.

  Giancarlo and Trinitee are working on their colorful day book page.

Ashton was hard at work making patterns with our colorful unifix cubes.

Edwin is putting his fine motor skills to work 

as he rolls play-doh into balls to place on one of the number mats.

Mallory is busy coloring the circles to match her color words.  Great job Mallory!

Speaking of Red to Self, I captured some good shots of my kinders building stamina!  

We made a little color book each day that we read together during shared reading. 

 After reading the book together and practicing how to point to each word,

 the kids placed them in their book baskets to be read during Read to Self.

 Look at Ava pointing to each word as she reads them.  Way to go kiddo!

Emily is a happy little reader!

I caught Ashton pointing to his words too!

Don't forget to color a leaf on your child's reading log each time you read together.  They can hand their log in with your signature at the end of the month
 to earn a big fuzzy!

  If you and your child read this blog post together, 

make sure he or she whispers the secret password to me 
for another chance to earn a big fuzzy!

Blog password: Pete

I Can Tell That We Are Gonna to Be Friends

 What a great first week!  My kiddos are all making friends and memories while learning how to be part of a community of little learners.  We have been working really hard to get all of our classroom procedures down pat!  Next week I'll introduce jobs and we'll start working on the Daily 5.

 Mrs. Mathiesen taught the kids all about how to look at things with "artist's eyes" 

when they went to art this week.  Check out Ben and Edwin wearing their artist's eyes.

We worked on sorting and patterning in math this week.  Mrs. Harverson is watching as Chloe makes a pattern of triangles and diamond shapes.

Little Hands at work!

Next week will be all about colors!  

If you and your child read this blog post together, 

make sure he or she whispers the secret password to me to earn a big fuzzy!

Blog Password: friends

Classroom Pictures

I promised you guys some pictures, so here they are!

 Miss Minardi created this super cute bulletin board in the hallway next to our door.

All of your names are on a piece of popcorn.  Yummy!

 

 Here is our "Work on Writing" Center.

 

This is our "Listen to Reading" center.

This is our Weather Frog.  When it is your turn to be the student of the day, 

you will get to dress the Weather Frog to match that day's weather. 

 Isn't he cute?

There are so many more things to look at.  I can't wait to show you everything.

 We are going to have so much fun on Thursday!!