Seasons and Apples

This week we talked about the four seasons on Tuesday. We read The Turning of the Year by Bill Martin and dressed up in different clothing for each of the seasons.

We also took turns decorating a paper tree for each of the seasons (colored leaves for fall, snow flakes for winter, flowers for spring, and green leaves for summer). We matched different pictures (like a sun, lemonade, leaves, flowers, snowman, etc) with the season they fit in.

We read a second book called Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. The boys made their own leaf men from things gathered from my yard.

On Thursday, we focused on Apples. The kids loved singing the song "Apples and Bananas". We played Pass the Apple (basically hot potato with an apple) while we sang each verse. We read The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall and recited the rhyme Way Up High in the Apple Tree with actions.

Way up high in the apple tree,

Two little apples smiled down at me,

I twisted those apples as gently as I could,

Off came the apples, ...Mmm, they were good!

I told the boys the story of The Little Red House with No Doors (about half way down on link) and they were totally captivated! We then cut open an apple to see the star inside and used them to make apple star stamps on our paper with paint.

We played a game of Worm through the Apple, where the boys stood in a line with their legs spread apart. Each boy took a turn crawling through the legs (like a worm through an apple). Then we painted apple cutouts that had a worm hole in them and put little smiley faces on our fingers to pretend they were worms poking though the hole.