Apple Tasting

Today during snack the children taste tested apples.  They tried red ones, yellow ones, and green ones.  They used the following adjectives to describe the apples; crunchy, juicy, sweet, sour, crisp, and even yummy.  Once the taste test was finished the children graphed which color apple they thought tasted the best.  In both the morning and afternoon the children had the most votes for yellow apples.

During centers today the children made an apple tree.  They cut out a trunk and leaves, glued them onto a piece of paper, and then made apples with paint and the eraser end of a pencil.

Today our read aloud was Ten Apples Up On Top.  This silly story offered us many opportunities to find rhyming words, like drop and top, tall, and fall, town and down.  At center time the children at my center drew a picture of themselves.  We took our time and made sure we had two eyes, a nose, a mouth, two ears, hair, and even eyebrows.  We also talked about the color of our hair and eyes.  Next the children were each given a number.  They traced over their number and then counted out the corresponding number of apples.  Lastly, they glued their apples to the top of their faces.  I am going to assemble each child's page into a class book.