This week (so far) in pictures and a winner!

Hmm my favorite apple.... No one guessed it...  Pink Lady Apples!!! So crisp, sweet and yummy!

So, how about a random winner instead, no lets make it two!

Congrats to:

Carolyn S. and Sarah! Check your in-boxes!

And for everyone else my apple centers will be on sale through tomorrow night!

Now on to the pictures....

This week we are full swing into to workshop. The kiddos tackled their favorite (at the moment anyway) must do; making real and non-sense words with their letter cards. I am in LOVE with this must do because it requires no copying at all! YES!

I taught the kiddos to pull out 6-10 (depending on their level) consonant cards and I give them the word family ending. Then they turn their cards one at a time, add it to the word family ending and circle the words that are real. Let me just say ... it's magical!

 We are also working on finishing our No David! Peacemakers/Peacebreakers unit. I did this last year courtesy of Cara Carroll at the 1st Grade Parade. But this year I changed it up a bit to include a directed art drawing. I love the way the students so easily connect to David. It makes discussing rules and behaviors much easier!

These are a few of their Davids. Aren't they funny. The sticky has their advice to David. My printer was down today :( so we will finish this project up tomorrow.

And as I mentioned before we are going apple crazy for the next couple of weeks.  Today we did an apple circle map, tomorrow parts of the apple and apple art later this week! Busy Busy!

And have you seen those lap folders around pinterest? Well I am on board! and I am planning one for my apple unit. The pieces are all created and I can't wait to share it when its finished. For now, here's a sneak peek!

Apples!!

We headed down the final stretch of our back to school apple unit. We have just a couple of math games to do next week, but I wanted to share a few of the fun activities we did this week! The kids were so excited to learn all about the apple. We started with the basics... the parts of the apple. I made a giant apple that we could put labels on. We did it multiple times so they could learn the vocab.. and they did :)

To go with this activity we completed an apple brace map.Click on the picture to download!

Up next was the life of an apple sequencing. We made a life cycle wheel and then did a pictures and writing activity. This project came at the perfect time... just in time for Back to School Night! Our hallway looked great with the writing pages and apple art courtesy of Mrs. Kilburn's Kiddos.

Click to download!

 Some fun sponge painting action!

and a cute finished apple!

We finished this week up with an apple tasting and graphing activity. We explored an apple using our five senses (the idea courtesy of a fellow blogger out there), a picture graph of our favorite apple, and an analysis worksheet.

I just love this! I will probably do this for a few others this year... pumpkin, gingerbread...I thought "tastes like candy" was pretty funny...

You can download these too!

Well that was quite a lot and we're not done just yet. I have to say I am about "appled" out... ha!