Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Life Cycle of an Apple

      Today we learned about the life cycle of an apple.  From seeds, to a trees, to blossoms to apples and back to seeds, the cycle is never ending.  Our class illustrated the cycle.

      We are learning how we can use our 5 senses to investigate apples.  We used all our senses today when we ate apple slices.  We looked at the slice very closely with our eyes, felt it, smelled it and of course, tasted it and listened to the crunching noise the apple made as we bit into it.

      Allie Alligator came to class today and brought the letter A.  We learned how to write the letter and learned the two sounds the vowel A makes.  When we used our nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty for word work, we were terrific detectives and found all the letter Aa's and highlighted them. 
    
       In math, we had apples with the numbers 0 - 10 on them.  After cutting them out, we put them in order and played a game called, "show me".  Show me the number 8.  Show me the number 3.  When we were finished, we put the numbers in order one more time on our paper and glued them down.

      We are trying very hard to learn our numbers 0 - 10.  Any practice you can give your child at home will help them achieve this target.