Apples

Fall is in th air, and although you would never know it here in Tucson, we are talking all about it in our classroom.  We started by doing a unit on apples, which we will continue throughout the week.  Here are some things and a riddle we worked on today.

In circle we noticed differences and similarities in apples and used them for math.

We painted with warm colors.

We did Apple Math in a small group activity.

And painting with apples.

We also taught the children this riddle about an apple:

Experimenting with Watercolor Drops in Water

The key to this is getting the children to only use small drops of water at a time.  As you can guess this can be very challenging for some children.  But if they are able to put the watercolor into the water just drops at a time, it can be quite mesmerizing and beautiful.  Some children didn't want to leave and spent their whole classroom free time at this table.

Composting Worms!

Blow paint

We used water colors, then gave the children pipettes to squirt color onto paper, and then blow around with a straw.  It was very popular, but hard to regulate the amount of paint put onto the paper.