Apples. Apples. Everywhere!

Apple Tasting:

It's apple week. We have a lot of cool things planned. Monday we started with apple tasting at snack time. We tasted red, green , & yellow apples. 
The kids loved that they each got to try all three. When we were finished I had the kids tell me which they liked the best and made a little chart! Im thinking they picked based on color rather than taste. But hey! I just asked them which they liked...I didn't say taste.

What type of apple do you like best?!

STORY TIME:

The Little House with No Doors and No Windows and a Star Inside 

Author Unknown 

(Have an apple, a cutting board, and a knife ready for the ending.  Enjoy the apple slices after this story or use for painting like we did!)

Read the story at http://www.mommynature.com/documents/apple-star-story.pdf

Now we see the STAR...Do YOU!?

ART TIME: Bingo Dot Apples

I traced some apples shapes onto white card stock and let the kids use bingo markers to fill them in. Gotta love the $ store! this craft cost me about 25 cents a kid!!

Big A, Little a

This past week we started our "school" curriculum! The kids are really getting the hang of the circle time mats. & love the idea of having school time. They are loving the new songs we are doing at Circle and almost know all the words to them already!! We added a new calendar and weather chart too.

Big A  Little a
I added a BIG A and a LITTLE a to 2 seperate containers. I took 10 eggs. On 5 I taped big A's and on the other 5 I taped little a's. I had the kids take turns to sort the eggs!

In no time they could each do it without help! In no way am I expecting them to remember or "Know" these...although some do. Its all about introduction!! :)

Glue & Color A's

Life's about dancing in the rain..

It had been really rainy all week and we had been spending a LOT of time in the driveway playing w bikes at any sign of sunshine. One afternoon while Shae & Sierra were being picked up, it started to rain. We all got a little wet while I helped Mark get the girls fast in the car, then it started to POUR!! I knew I had Ethan for just about 15 more minutes, so I striped them down and let them play! (FYI, my son would be in under roos too, except he isnt wearing any...we are going through a no underwear or no pants phase. That day, pants won.)

Playing Restaurant

Dramatic Play:

Since adding the pasta, rice, pots & pans the kids have really been into 'cooking" and "serving". Ive always LOVED playing house growing up and it's amazing to see them chatter and pretend to be GROWN!! Its hilarious to see how they interpret their grown up influences. Video of this to come...bc they are something else! Shae was on the phone for a while chit chatting it upwith someone and it was too cute!! She says "I'm just chillaxin at Miss Coreys!" LOL!!!

This is an EXACT quote! haha Shae: "I'm just CHILLAXIN at Miss Corey's!" LOL!!