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GOOFY GAZETTESEPTEMBER 30, 2011

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 26 - 30: We had a busy week learning all about apples! We filled the letter A with apple seeds (fingerprints!). We practiced writing the letter Aa on paper and in applesauce. We read through our Letter A book and circled all the letter Aas in red. We practiced tracing different lines, helping the worm get to the apple. We made some a-peeling apples by tearing pieces of red construction paper and gluing

them onto our apple shape.

We learned a new song, Apple, Apples (words below) and created hand motions(including sign language!) to go along with our song.

We made pattern apple crowns. We put apples on trees-each tree had a number 1-5. We had to draw the correct number

of apples on the tree.

We practiced counting apples as we read through our weekly Scholastic magazine. We took turns driving the ambulance around. Whiling driving the ambulance to pick up

the hurt animal and take him to the hospital we called out, Aa-aa, aa-aa, aa-aa for thesound of the siren. Once at the hospital we placed a bandage on the animal and returned

the ambulance to the station! This activity was very helpful in reinforcing the letter a

sound.

We made apples and apple pie with green and red play dough, sticks, pie pans andaccessories.

We read Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss. We tried to balance one apple on our head!We then made our own class book, How Many Apples Up on Top?

We took our apple fun outside and made an apple roll painting. We LOVED this activity! We read a book and sequenced the growth of an apple tree.

We played Apple Concentration. We cut some apples in half and looked at the two different types of seed patterns, star and

oval. We then used the apples to make apple prints.

We taste tested 3 different types of apples. We then graphed our favorite type. We had 5friends that chose McIntosh as their favorite, 1 friend that chose Granny Smith as his

favorite and 2 friends that chose Golden Delicious as their favorite!

We sorted our apples by color and used the balance scale to see which apple was theheaviest, lightest and how many small apples it took to balance the scale with one large.

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We learned about Johnny Appleseed and made our own pot to wear on our head. We thenimitated Johnny Appleseeds seed-planting travels by going on a Johnny Appleseed

Walk. We tossed apple seeds (grass seed) as we walked.

We learned 4 new Sing & Spell sight word songs! (words below) Ask your child to teachyou the songs and motions.

During Storybook Caf, we read From Apple Seed to Applesauce and made homemadeapplesauce! Delicious!WORDS OF WISDOM...LEARN TO BE FLEXIBLE; IT MAKES THE CURVES IN YOUR LIFE PATH

MUCH EASIER TO MANEUVER. Cherie Carter-Scott

COMING UP NEXT WEEK...,shapes, our five senses, Letter Tt (dont forget to have your childbring a small item or draw/cut a picture of an item that begins with the letter )

INFO & REMINDERS Thank you Nicole for filling our Extra Special Person basket with the items you love and sharing them with

us! LILY will be our Star of the Week for next week!

The concept activity bags are sent home on Mondays and do not need to be returned until the followingMonday. If you chose to send your bag back early, a new bag will not be sent home until the next Monday.

Children will not receive a new bag until the previous bag is returned.

Our interactive class book is making its rounds! Please take about 2 days to read/interact with the book andsend it back so another friend can take a turn. We make lots of class books throughout our year and we

love to share them. Enjoy!

MARK YOUR CALENDARWindmill Farm Market, Thursday October 6th. They are calling for sunny

skies and a high of 68*!

Apple, Apples

(sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)

Apples juicy, apples round;On the tree or on the ground.

Apples yellow, apples red,

Apple pie and juice and bread!

Apples crunchy, apples sweet;Apples are so good to eat!

GO HAVEG-O, G-O, G-O, G-O, Have you got a froggy

I can spell a go, go, go, go. Singing in a pond?

G-O, G-O, G-O, G-O, G-O, G-O, H-A-V-E, have!Go, go, go, go, go, to school! H-A-V-E, have!(repeat) (repeat)

HE HEREHe is just a word with an H and then an E. Here is spelled, here is spelled,If you spell it quickly H-E-R-E here!It sounds just like a sneeze! Heres a swell jingle bell,H-E! H-E! (act like sneezing) H-E-R-E here!

H-E! H-E! H-E! (repeat)

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