Fruit Salad-Yummy, Yummy!!

What a wonderful week! The kids are doing a great job listening during lesson time. 

During calendar time, we sang the days of the week to the Addams family song. Ask your child if they can sing it for you. We also started practicing the months of the year by doing the macarena. We are also incorporating a Question of the Day. Here's Tuesday's question.

On Wednesday and Thursday, we made fruit salad. Each child brought in their favorite fruit. We sang, "Fruit Salad-Yummy, Yummy" while we pretended to cut up our fruit, mix in a bowl, and eat it. Our question of the day on Thursday was, "Do you like orange juice?". Before we asked our question, we made our own orange juice. Each child got a half of an orange in a baggie. They squeezed all the juice out and got to drink it with a straw. They did AMAZING at this. Here they are making orange juice. 

Can you believe they all liked the orange juice?!?  

Here we are eating our fruit salad. 

 

The children love handwashing. Here's one little girl making sure her bowl is nice and dry. :)

This little boy is taking his time pouring his water. The children get a choice between milk and water. 

 

Friends having snack together. 

Work time!

Our cutting and pasting this week was an apple. 

We made an orange at our art area.

FRUIT

What a busy week we had!! 

Here we are trying to find our fruit match.  We played music while the children had to find the friend with the same fruit. Ask your child which fruit they had.   

One of the skills we are working really hard on is cutting.  This is something new for most of the children.  It would be great if you could work on cutting at home.

 The children had to color their apples and snip red paper and glue it on.  

 They loved working with real glue.  We put the glue in milk caps and they use a small paintbrush to "paint" the glue on.  

 Here we are working on our snips.  

A fun apple song we sang.  

Apple (Bingo)

I know a fruit that's good to eat

and apple is it's name-o.

A-P-P-L-E   A-P-P-L-E  A-P-P-L-E

and apple is it's name-o.

Next we replaced each apple with crunch.  

We tasted apples to see which kind we liked the best.

Thanks for bringing in apples.  We loved making and eating our apple crisp.  

 Learning about the life cycle of a butterfly

 What goes together

Orange juice & Fruit

We made our own healthy orange juice!  Each child got a half of an orange in a baggie.  The kids got to squeeze theirs until they made orange juice.  We added a straw and enjoyed our fresh squeezed orange juice.

YUMMY!! 

The kids are doing great using scissors.  They worked hard on making their apples.

We counted apples!

We matched fruit!

Fruits

Last week we had a great time learning about fruit. 

We read a book called, "Ten Apples up on top!" by Dr. Seuss.

Mrs. Porcaro tried to see how many apples she could put on her head.  She could only balance 1! 

 We made our own book, "Sunshine Mountain Friends have 112 apples on their heads".  The kids got to put how many apples they would like to balance on their head.  The book is in the process of being laminated and bound.

We also graphed what our favorite apple was.  Each child got the opportunity to taste a piece of red, green and yellow apple.  After each child tried them, we asked them which they liked best.  After the class was done, we counted the apples and picked which we liked the best and least. 

We sang some fun apple songs too!

A-P-P-L-E

(bingo)

I know a fruit that's good to eat and apple is its name-o

A-P-P-L-E, A-P-P-L-E, A-P-P-L-E

And apple is it's name-o.

In our version, the letter is replaced with a "crunch" (like crunching an apple). 

I know a fruit that's good to eat and apple is its name-o

Crunch-P-P-L-E, Crunch-P-P-L-E, Crunch-P-P-L-E

And apple is it's name-o.

Observation

This is from October but I love these pictures!!  The kids love exploring!  We had out different fruits during our fruit unit for the kids to look at with a magnifying glass. 

We had fruit hole punching out too!