Spider and Bat FREEBIES!

It is almost time for the Spider and Bat unit! Can you tell I'm excited?? In order to kick it off I am giving away two freebies! These two pages can both be found in my Spiders and Bats unit that is 30+ pages of science, math, and literacy fun. Click on the pictures to be taken to my TPT store where they are free!

Apples, Apples, and more Apples! Oh... and a Freebie too! :)

This week we have been learning all about apples- one of my favorite things to teach about! Tomorrow we are making our class applesauce and I am so excited I can already taste the cinnamon! So far this week we have read Apples by Gail Gibbons, Ten Apples Up On Top by Theo Lesieg, Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins, and The Story of Johnny Appleseed by Aliki. Today we graphed our favorite of those four books and Ten Red Apples won! This was funny to me because the copy we have in our school library looks about 50 years old and I was assuming my little kinders would judge the book by its cover (literally!) and not like it. They proved me wrong though!! Here is our graph:

 

I printed pictures of the covers of the books from the internet to put at the bottom of our graph. It took all of ten minutes but made our graph much cuter :)

Earlier in the week, after reading Ten Apples Up On Top, we used 10 apples to make an apple pattern on two large pieces of white construction paper. My wonderful assistant die cut 150 apples in red, green, and yellow for them to choose from while making their patterns. When they were done, I took pictures of them acting like they were balancing 10 apples on top of their heads. They had so much fun looking at their silly "balancing" pictures!

 

We also made the apple glyphs from my Full Year of Glyphs unit on TPT. I edited the directions a little bit for this one in order to fit our time limit that day and my students needs. Here they are below:

 

All week we have been tasting several foods that are apple flavored or are made from apples. We have been filling out the paper below as we go to document whether we liked the foods or not:

 

You can download this for FREE at my TPT store. Are any of ya'll teaching apples this week?? What are you doing to add a little extra fun into your lessons?

More Colors!

Today we worked a little bit more on our Colors Unit. We did our experiment with mixing different colors of food coloring to see what the end result would be. My kiddos LOVED this and did a surprisingly good job filling out their "data sheets". Here is a pic of one of their completed sheets:

We also finished our "Color Word Graphs" today. Here they are:

 

You can see these activities, the ones from yesterday, and more in my unit on Tpt. Here is a better look at some of what is included:

Have a good night!!