End of Apple Unit and Centers

This week we had a short week due to our statewide Catholic Schools Conference today and tomorrow which made this week FLY by! We finished up our apple unit this week with a few last minute apple activities. We had already tasted applesauce, apple juice, and apple butter so this week we tasted apple chips. We tasted the Golden Delicious flavor. 

 

I will be honest with you, these were not necessarily the biggest hit, hah! Only about half of the kids said they liked them, but I figured it was something they probably have not tried before and would be an interesting new experience. 

We also made these cute crafts I found on pinterest.

Now onto CENTERS- yay! Oh my word do I LOVE centers. There was a point last year where my class could not handle the freedom and the switching of centers and so we were not able to do them for awhile. So sad. Centers is consistently one of our favorite things in kindergarten so to miss out is no fun for the students OR the teacher!

Honestly I do not know what I would do without centers. I love that they are all educational, but they are fun and they also teach my little ones how to work with each other and get along.

In my class we have a pocket chart at the front of the room with our centers for the day listed. I downloaded the adorable pictures for the centers from Deedee Wills years ago and laminated them. They fit perfectly into our chart! This chart used to be for my old calendar but then I switched my calendar over to be completely done on the Smartboard.

  

Have a great rest of the week!!

Ten Frame Class Book

This year we are really hitting those ten frames hard. I feel like they have been implemented into almost all of our math lessons so far this year. Last week we took our class pictures for our Ten Frame Class Book that my grade partner found from http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/. If you have not been to this website yet, you need to check it out. It is AWESOME! Here is what the front cover of our class book looks like:

 This font is one of my newest obsessions from Kevin and Amanda's fonts for peas. It is called Pea KT Polkie Dot.

Then, on the inside pages, we had the numeral form and ten frame representation of a number on a piece of paper with the corresponding number of students in the picture holding the paper. So for example the number one page had the paper and one child holding it.

When we were all done, I printed off the pictures on regular copy paper, put them into sheet protectors and threw the cover together real quick for our first class book of the year. My students love reading our class books and especially love to see their pictures in them!!

Do any of you make class books?? If so, what are the topics you make them on? 

Hope you all had a Magnificent Monday!