Apples, Apples, Apples!

For the next two weeks in Ms. Abby and Ms. Mary's classes we will be learning all about Apples.  We will be reading the following books and learning two vocabulary words with each book.  The vocabulary words were also sent home, so please work on them with your child at home!

Para las dos proximas semanas en las clases de Ms. Abby y Ms. Mary vamos a aprender todo sobre manzanas!  Vamos a leer estos libros y aprender dos palabras de vocabulario para cada libro.  Uds. recibieron las palabras, por favor trabajo con sus ninos en la casa!

Activities for Home:

Actividades para la Casa:

Show your child the picture and talk about the definition of "shiny."  Make a sign that says "yes" and "no."  Look around your house with your child and find things that are shiny, and things that are not shiny!

Muestra la foto y la definition de "brillante." Haga un papel que dice "si" y "no." Busque en su casa con su nino para cosas que son brillantes y cosas que no son brillantes!

Show your child the picture of and talk about "carving."  Talk about other things that you can carve, what you can use, and what you can carve!  At school we carved faces into playdough with sticks.

Muestra y habla de la definition de "tallar."  Habla sobre las cosas que pueden tallar, que puede usar para tallar, y que puede tallar!  En la escuela los estudiantes tallaron plastacina con palos.

Activities for Home:

Actividades para la Casa:

Show your child the picture and talk about the definition of "delicious."  Make a sign that says "yes" and "no."  Look around for real or pretend foods, and decide if they are delicious or not!

Muestra la foto y la definition de "delicioso." Haga un papel que dice "si" y "no." Busque en su casa con su nino para comida real o falsa, y habla si la comida es delicioso o no es delicoso!

Show your child the picture and talk about the definition of "blossoms."  Trace your child's hand and make leaves to make a tree!  Then use a bingo marker, paint, or markers to make blossoms!

Muestra la foto y la definition de "florecimiento." Traza la mano de su hijo y hagan hojas para hacer un arbol!  Luego use un marcador del bingo, pintura, o marcadores para hacer florecimientos!

Apples and Pumpkins

Here is our book for the week!  I would suggest getting it from the library and reading it with your child.  We are doing "dialogic reading" with this book. Here is a great article that describes what dialogic reading is.  We are also using the following vocabulary words to go with the pictures.  Before we read the story, we will show them the pictures of the words and give them the definition.  Then we will all say the word together.  Here are the words with their pictures and the definition (I just used google images for these pictures).

Apple Farmer Annie

Here is our book for the week!  It is a great book about a girl that has her own apple farm.  It includes all different vocabulary words about apples!  It is also available in a bilingual format, with both Spanish and English on the same page.  I would definitely suggest checking this out from the library!

Apple Play dough Mats

Here are some language play dough mats!  Just print out the mats, and then laminate them.  You can use red, green, or yellow play dough to play with.  You can work on following directions and tell your child to make an apple to put in the tree, in the basket, on the ground, in the girl/boy's hand etc.

Apples

This week and next we will be learning about apples!  Here is the book we will be reading:

The book is super long and wordy, so I will not be reading all of the words.  Instead, I will paraphrase and talk about the pictures.  

We will also be doing a "small world activity" about apples.  I made an apple orchard in an old small briefcase.  It will be a language activity by talking about all of the different family members that are at the orchard. We will talk about picking apples from the trees and putting them in baskets.  

Here is the targeted vocabulary:

apple tree

pick

basket

orchard

family

We will also use this play as a category activity.  I will have other fruits in the orchard, and we will talk about which fruits are apples and belong on the apple trees.  I have a bucket that says "no" where we will put all of the non apples.

For a closer look, I used green playdough for the base of the tree, and put in leaves from a fake flower arrangement I have.  I used bigger apples from a sorting activity we have at school, and the small apples and baskets are from "Hi Ho Cheery-o."  

Here is the background I used in the briefcase:

I got the idea from the blog my nearest and dearest.  Look at her blog for other great ideas for "invitation to play" or "small world play."

We will also be doing the following apple finger play:

Here are the different photos you will need to do it at home:  

I will also be hiding large apples around the classroom for the children to find.  We will then put the apples in a big basket.  I used the following template, and I will print out the apples on green, yellow, and red apples. After, we will count all of the apples and talk about the different colors.

I also made an apple tree for the kids! They will pick the apples off of the tree so they can learn what apple picking feels like! There are "Pp" and "Bb" on all of the apples. We will be distinguishing between the two different sounds and letters.

September Vocabulary Words

Here are the vocabulary words we will be learning in September!  The first two week we will be learning about apples, and the for the remainder of the month we will be learning about community helpers.