This week we are looking at the letter Ff and fruit. Today for table activities we played in miniature apple orchards or did fruit prints. On Friday we will make fruit sculptures and sort fruit.
On Wednesday, we hope to meet all our friends at Plymouth Orchards and Cider Mill at 9:15 am.We hope to have a great day learning about apple trees, having a wagon ride and picking an apple.
This week we are learning about the different parts of fruit like the skin and the seed, exploring different fruits with all of our senses, including taste. We are also listening for the letter Ff and making it's sound.
Some of the KDIs we are emphasizing this week are-
Observing: Children observe the materials and processes in their environment.- We looked for seeds in our fruit, looked at the skin and saw what skin we eat and what skin we don't. Investigated whether the color on the inside of the fruit was the same as the color on the outside.
Pretend play: Children express and represent what they observe, think, imagine, and feel through pretend play. - Children had the opportunity to pretend they were in an apple orchard and pick apples and put them in little baskets.
Planning: Children make plans and follow through on their intentions.- We plan for play daily and the children have remembered what they played and remembered what their plan was!
Our Word of God story this week is the story of Noah. After Adam and Eve were made to leave the garden, people just became worse and worse until there was only one family left who believed in God. This was Noah's family. God told Noah to build an ark and get ready to be onboard for a long time. It took Noah 100 years to build the ark, the other people on earth were given 100 years to come to faith. Instead they made fun of Noah as he built a giant boat nowhere near the water. God had animals come to him, at least two of every kind, to be saved on the ark. When God was ready, he closed the door and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. The whole earth was covered with water. Finally, after many days, the ark came to rest on top of a mountain. Noah and his family and the animals came out of the ark when there was enough dry land to support them. The first thing Noah did was to build an altar to give thanks to God for keeping them safe through the flood. God placed a rainbow in the sky as a symbol of the promise that he would never again destroy the earth with a flood.
The books we are reading this week are all apple books- "The Apple Pie Tree" by Zoe Hall, "The Biggest Apple Ever" by Steven Kroll and "Under the Apple Tree" by Steve Metzger.
Also, first change field trip wise- The field trip to Nankin Mills originally scheduled on October 10th will now take place on Tuesday, October 3rd. More information will be coming home later this week!
Have a terrific week!!
Mrs. Schneck
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