We have enjoyed exploring with our pattern block shapes 

during center time.  We work puzzles with our shapes and then have 

free exploration to create our own designs.  

Take a look at a few of our creations.

tree 

 fish, sun, rocket, squid and a pirate

During math this week we learned about our geo-boards and geo-bands.  We use them to make different shapes.  We made triangles, squares, circles, rhombi, hexagons  and rectangles.

Apples, apples and more apples!!  We learned about how apples grow, what we can make with apples, learned an apple poem and enjoyed reading lots of books about apples.

The children got to see what an apple tree looks like throughout the year during the different seasons.

During the winter the tree is bare, in spring it starts to grow new leaves and buds begin to grow, in the summer the tree is full of green leaves and apples begin to grow and during the fall the apples are ripe and ready to be picked!!

We had a yummy apple tasting party to see which apple was our favorite!  

 We tasted Red Delicious apples....

 Yellow Delicious apples.......

 and Granny Smith apples. 

We were curious about why the green apples were called Granny Smith.  We found out that they are named for a lady named Granny Smith.  She was the first to find this apple sprouting by a creek on her land.

After tasting our apples we graphed our favorite.  

The class like Red Delicious the BEST!!!