Apple Pie

Today was a fun day!  We all made an apple pie together.  We read "The Apple Pie Tree" by Zoe Hall.  This is one of my favorite books!  It shows the different stages of an apple tree and then the kids, in the book, make an apple pie with the apples.   Of course, we made our version of an apple pie too.  I love this recipe because it is really kid friendly!


I turned the small convection oven on to 400 degrees.
First I prepped the apples (5 large, peeled and cut) ahead of time.  We added 1 tablespoon of sugar to the apples to make them more juicy.  We all took a turn stirring the apples and sugar mix.

 Kara

 Patrick

 Talia

Luke

We set the apples aside and worked on the "pie crust" part of the recipe.  

 Patrick added 1 cup of light brown sugar.

 Kara added 1 cup of Bisquick.

 Talia added 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

Luke added 1 egg, the entire egg!  I fetch it out, all in one piece and showed him how to break an egg.  :)

I added 1 and 1/2 sticks of melted butter (microwave for 1 minute) because it was really hot!  We all took turns stirring the mix. 

 We sprayed the pan and placed the apples into it.

 Then we poured the "pie crust" on top of the apples and spread them out.  

We placed it in the oven for 1 hour.

This is what it looks like after it was all done!  It was so yummy.  All of the kids loved it!  This is such an easy recipe and you can use almost any fruit.  Hope you all have a chance to make this with your kiddies too!

Apple Plate Art

Today we did a simple but fun project.  We made these cute apples using a paper plate and ripped construction paper.  We talked about how apple starts with an A and we also focused on the color red.
Here are a few pictures.

 Kara busy gluing

 Talia busy gluing

 Talia posing with her apple

 Patrick posing with his apple

 Kara, very reluctantly, posing with her apple 

Group shot!  They had a blast!

During circle time, we read "Ten Apples Up on Top" by Dr Seuss.  It was a great counting book.  It's one of my favorites!

We played a guessing game with the A box.  Thanks to Luke for bringing alligators for our A box!  The kids are having a great time going through the box and finding things that start with A.

For free art we played with play-dough.  

Can't wait for tomorrow!

Next Week

We will.....
 continue learning about the Letter A
be reading "The Apple Pie Tree" by Zoe Hall
try a kid friendly apple pie recipe that the kids can make
continue to fill our A box

The second half of September we will be focusing on the Letter F for Fall.  Start looking for letter F things to fill for our box!

Finishing off The Apple Counting Book

Today, we finished our apple counting books.  Yesterday we colored them and today we painted the apples.  After they were dry, we assembled them and read them together.  Now they have their very own book to take home and read!

 Here's Kara demonstrating

 The book cover

Since Kara is the oldest in the group, she wanted to do some pre-K work.  Normally, I don't like tracing worksheets until another year, but she insisted and she said she was ready.  She sure was! 

counting apples, tracing the letter A, recognizing lower case and upper case A

Next the kids picked what they wanted to do in the art center.  They picked 2 things, dot art and play-dough!   They all had fun, even Luke wanted to be part of the fun!

Dot Art

 Kara

 Luke (he was fast! lol)

 Talia

Finished Artwork

 Talia

 Luke

Kara

Play-Dough was a blast!

 Kara made the letter A

 Luke was so happy to discover play-dough

Talia loved rolling and cutting the play-dough

During center time, Luke went over to the quiet area and layed down with Kara.  All he wanted was to cuddle with her!  I thought that was so adorable. 

They held hands and he was talking to Kara.  

We were certainly busy bees today!  They were exhausted after all the great fun!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Apple Counting Book

Today we worked on coloring our apple counting books.  Tomorrow we will be "putting the apples on the tree".  

Here are the girls hard at work:

Lukey Man loves to watch the girls do their projects and today he brought over the guitar for some rocking good music for them to enjoy!

We went through the Letter A box again today.  Thank you to Luke for bringing us a toy airplane to add to our collecting.  The kids love to sit at the table and play with the toys in the box.  They are recognizing a lot of the items in the box.  Luke recognized the acorn and apple.  Talia recognized one of the hardest object in there, the aluminum foil!  I was very impressed!  They are listening so well and learning so much at such a young age.  I cannot tell you how proud I am.  


We had special visitors this morning, Patrick and Maura came to play with us!  They had a great time playing together.  Then we had a special treat!  Today was a movie day, since we can't get out.  We turned off all the lights and closed all the curtains and settled ourselves down to watch a movie with some popcorn.  They had a great day!


I linked the page I used for the apple counting book.  It's on the right of the blog.  I've also linked sites that will benefit your child's education through out the year.  The book will go home tomorrow once it's dry.  They can "read" the book to you over the weekend!

Sticker art with the Letter A

Today we had a great time placing

 stickers on a big letter A.

 Here's Talia putting her stickers on her A.

 Kara only placed "Ariel" stickers because "Ariel starts with the Letter A"

 Luke did not do a project but he was more than thrilled to sit at the table. 

 He wants to be just like the big kids!

Talia showing us her finished A.

The kids decorated both sides and then we hung them up in our classroom.

Letter A Box

 We had a great time looking through the A box today.  Kara helped me look around the house the night before.  We got a pretty good amount but could use more! 


So far we have: 

an apple

 ape

 animal

 acorn

 angel

 automobile (another word for car)

 aluminum foil

 Letter A

 Letter A Book

If you have anything that starts with the Letter A at home that can:
1. fix the box
2. or we do not have already
Please feel free to send it in.


We will be collecting A things all month!