Johnny Appleseed Week!

Welcome to our class website! I am so happy to share with you what we're learning and doing each week! Developmentally, it's difficult for a child to remember all of the things we do in a day, so my hope is to give you questions you can ask him/her at the dinner table to spark his/her memory. We love when other people ask us what we're learning and doing! :)

Oh my goodness! This week may have become my favorite thematic unit in Kindergarten. We had SO much fun incorporating Johnny Appleseed and apples into our science unit of the 5 senses...

This was after day 1: sense of sight! We added sticky notes in a specific color for each sense each day! We saw, touched, tasted, and smelled our apples! We also talked about the sound apples make when we bite into them!

Making apple sauce in the crockpot on Friday!

You can't celebrate Johnny Appleseed week without making cinnamon applesauce... and you can't make applesauce without wearing a pot on your head like Johnny! :)

Our applesauce tasting party was a huge success! Almost all of us loved it and wanted seconds! Thank you so much to the parents who donated ice cream, spoons, and bowls to us.

Ask Your Child About:

-Writing: Why do we add labels? (To give the reader more information) What are the parts of an apple? What describing words/adjectives did you choose to write about your apple?

-Content Literacy: Making observations of the natural world and know that they are descriptors collected using the five senses. How do apples look? How do apples taste? How do apples feel? How do apples smell? How do we make applesauce? Did you like the applesauce?

-Letters: Xx, Jj, Ee

-Sight words: go, see, four

-Phonemic Awareness: beginning sounds of words

-Reading: Main topic & Key details- Think of a sense that you can use with a grape- Draw a picture of you using that sense. Label the picture.

What animal ears did we study? What sense do their ears help them with?

-Math: Numbers 6-10. Can you write a 6/7/8/9/10 for me? Does it matter what order the 1 and the 0 are in for 10? (YES! numeral reversals are developmentally appropriate at this age, so I will never mark a backwards number as wrong, but I will point it out to them... however, as we get into teen numbers the order of the numbers is crucial to understanding place value so we stress this concept!)

With SO much love,

Ms. Ham

Disclosure: I have written consent to post photos of students from parents/legal guardians.