Miss Stacey's Preschool Classroom: More Apples!

Last week we continued to study apples. The students have been enjoying learning about and even tasting the apples! We picked out a few of our yellow, red, and green apples and had a taste test. We then voted on which apple was our favorite and made a graph. The picture below will show you our results! For small groups we again did our three different activities. For the first group we did apple prints with paint on our letter A! We cut open apples in two different ways to get different prints. The kids thought it was pretty fun to dip the apples in the paint. Our second small group worked on finding all the letters in their name with letter beads. Once they found their letters they strung those beads on a string to make a name necklace. It was a great activity to work on names as well as fine motor skills. Our last group was measuring ourselves with apples. Each student laid down on the floor and had their friends line up apples to match their height. We then counted how many apples tall each person was. For our "Science Friday" activity, we took a look at our science experiment from last week when we cut up our apples and put them into different liquids. We definitely got some good results! The apples in water and salt water grew plenty of mold for us to see. The apples in vinegar and lemon juice grew no mold. We discussed how the vinegar and lemon juice have acid in them and it "protected" the apples from growing mold. It's so exciting to hear the thoughts and ideas the kids can come up with even at such a young age!

This week we are still doing some things with apples and also reviewing our shapes and colors. I'll give more details on this weeks activities in the next post. Don't forget to let me know if you'd like to join us on our field trip to the pumpkin patch next week. It's going to be a great time!