Monday, October 11

Group Meeting:  We are starting a new activity this week that will continue throughout the year.  Every day, we will have a King or Queen.  The King or Queen will put the sticker on the 10 frame that we use to count the days.  He/she will also hold the flag for the Pledge of Allegiance and will be the line leader.  The King or Queen will get to bring one item for Show and Tell.  When it is your child's turn, a Show and Tell bag will be sent home with directions.  It will take 20 days for everyone's turn to come around which may seem like an eternity for some children, but everyone will get a turn.

Story:  The book that I read today was An Apple a Day by Melvin Berger.  This book, with it's wonderful pictures, shows how apples grow.  We see the blossoms, the bees, and the little apples that grow.  After I read this book, we compared it to the pumpkin book that I read on the field trip.  Both pumpkins and apples start as flowers.  Both need bees or some other pollinator to help the fruit grow.  

I also told the story of the little boy who was looking for a red house with a chimney that had a star inside.  The red house is an apple.  The children watched me find the star.  Your child can show you how to find the star.

Letter Learning:  Hh

Counting Syllables:  I told the children that words are made up of parts called syllables.  We can figure out how many syllables are in a word by clapping when we say the word.  I used fruits to demonstrate.  Apple has two syllables or two claps.  Banana has three.  We completed a paper with this activity that I will show you at conferences.

Snack:  The snack for today was strawberry yogurt, granola, and water.