As we continued on with our apple week, we read a fiction story called Max & Mo Go Apple Picking, and learned about the different elements of a story. Together as a class we filled out an anchor chart that showed the different elements.
For science we’ve been learning about things that are living and nonliving. We examined some apples and created our own diagram that displayed the different parts of the apple.
Today on Friday we celebrated our second Fiesta Friday by putting apples in a juicer and making hot apple cider in a crock pot. Students got to enjoy the apple cider while watching a virtual field trip to an apple orchard on Blippi.
This week students learned how the weather and seasons determine our activities and how we live. Students learned that during the fall time we harvest food such as apples for winter. For reading, we read a nonfiction book called A Day at the Apple Orchard and created the life cycle of an apple.
During math students talked about matching quantity with numbers and number words. They read the emergent reader book Apples in the Basket and worked on being illustrators for the book. They drew and colored the matching number of apples to the correct page.
Students also learned the song Way Up High in the Apple Tree that introduce students simple subtraction story problems by counting down each time the boy eats an apple. Ask your children to sing this song to you!
To finish off our apple unit we learned how to make apple cider using a juicer. We started off reading the book Max and Mo Go Apple Picking where the class in the story made applesauce instead of apple cider. Then students took turns putting apples into a juicer.
Then we put the cider from the juicer into the crock-pot, added some ingredients, and let it cook. When the cider was done, students had the cider and wrote their opinion on if they liked apple cider or not. You can find the writing prompt in our apples mini-unit.
Also during literacy workshop time students worked on word work where they made sentences about apples.
We watched a video about parts of an apple from Hasemeier Early Learning resources. Along with this video was an emergent reader that we read together as a class.
Then we put together an apple with construction paper and labeled the parts. You can find this activity and many other apple activities from our apple mini unit.
 
Last week was our apple unit. We learned about living things and how they grow and change. We talked about how apples are living things and we learned about their life cycle. We read the book A Day at the Apple Orchard and made a life cycle of the apple using the book as our guide.
For math we worked on learning quantities and number words 1-10. We read the emergent reader book Apples in the Basket and drew the number of apples that matched the words on the page.
We’ve been at it again over here at The Kindergarten All-Stars! Â As we’re gearing up to go back to school, I’ve developed my apples mini unit for purchase over at Teachers Pay Teachers. Â I’ve used this unit for years but now it’s ready for you to use it in your classrooms!
In this bundle students will explore various science skills & topics such as; investigating, labeling, life cycle, and vocabulary. Â Language Arts and math curriculum are integrated into the activities. Â The activities are aligned to Kindergarten Common Core standards. Â The packet includes 25 pages of print & go workpages, a emergent reading book, a writing prompt, and 2 art projects. Â I cannot wait to use this unit again in my classroom and show you more pictures! Â If you’re as excited as I am to use this unit, you can purchase it by clicking on the picture below.
As we finished up our apples unit in our class we read stories about picking applies and making things from apples.  Some stories were fiction like The Biggest Apple Ever by Steven Kroll, and some stories are nonfiction like A Day at the Apple Orchard by Megan Faulkner.  We also watched a video and sang a song about the life cycle of an apple.  Students then made their own life cycle of an apple.  You can find the Life Cycle of an Apple  FREEBIE on teachers pay teachers here.
 
Students also got to help make hot apple cider by taking apple slices and putting them into a juicer, and they watched the juice come out the other side. Â I finished making the cider by adding cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice and letting it heat up in a crock pot.
 
Finally for writing, students wrote about if they liked apple cider by completing the sentence and drawing a picture about apples / apple orchards.
This week we started our apples unit and began the unit by reading the story Ten Apples up on Top by Theo. LeSeig.  Then students picked a number and made a cut and paste art project that illustrated how many apples they can count up on top of their head.
It is apples week in the Kindergarten All-Stars classroom. Â We read apple math books like “Ten Red Apples” and “Ten Apples on Top“, and then we created our own apple trees and wrote the number of apples on them.
 
Then we read the story “The Biggest Apple Ever” and compared that story with “The Biggest Pumpkin Ever“.  Then we made homemade apple cider using a juicer and wrote about the apple cider using describing what it looks like, smells like, and tastes like.
 
After our field trip on Friday we learned how other places participate in the fall harvest.  Our class talked about how where I come from (in Michigan) we pick apples.  We learned the letter Aa and read the book “Red Are the Apples” by Marc Harshman.  We also retold the key details by remembering what were the different things on the farm and what colors they were.
Then we made a text to self connection by trying homemade apple cider (as they made apple cider at the end of the story). Â We learned about the five senses and used three of them to describe the apple cider in a writing activity.
 
 
 
 
