Apple theme weeks!!!

To start kindergarten off in a fun way, we decided to do an apple theme. There were so many fun things to learn and do that we made it a two week project. We started off by going to the library and getting a bunch of books about apples and John Appleseed. Lily loved learning all sorts of apple facts and was fast to tell everyone what she was learning.

We had two fun cooking projects during our unit. One was to make homemade applesauce. We peeled and cut the apple and put it in the crockpot. Lily then added sugar and water and cinnamon. It was so yummy for Val and me, but Lily actually didn't like it.

We also made applesmiles with Lily's friend Boston. They used sliced apples and spread peanut butter on it and then used marshmallows as the teeth. It was fun to make and yummy to eat!

Somehow I messed up my pictures as I put them on here...not sure what I did. During math time, we had two fun projects. Lily first colored and cut out apples. Then we used them to count as we put them in the basket and we did some simple addition with the apples. Lily loved this so we did it several times.

We also did an apple graph. Lily asked several of her friends what their favorite type of apple is. The choices were golden delicious, granny smith, or red delicious. We colored in their choices and then looked at the results.

Golden delicious won!!! However, it was pretty close. Red delicious and granny smith tied. Valerie also got to the paper and tried to do a little coloring at the top.

During art time, we had a great time painting with apples. We cut them in half and used it to decorate the apple design.

We thought it was really neat that the seads of an apple form a star!

Lily also did some drawing on her chalk board. Here is a picture of a mommy cat with her kittens. :)

Lily also did some science time with her daddy. They went bug hunting and found a slug and some beetle. They then gave them food and water!

We did some great writing. Here Lily wrote a sentence about her favorite apple. It says, "I like yellow apples."

For writing and science, we talked about seasons and how it affects the apple tree. We painted Lily's arm four times to make different trees. Then she finger painted the leaves and apples on. She also used tissue paper for her spring tree to show the flowers. This was a really fun project.

I realized now that I left off taking a picture of Lily doing her apple poem. It was so much fun. Lily is a little sad that we are done with the apple unit so I may need to find a few more things to do with apples over the next few weeks.

Lily is also super excited about Fall! Can't wait to do some lesson plans on that!