The children loved taste testing the apples during this shared reading/writing activity! Some of them were surprised to discover a new favorite apple, while other children had a hard time picking just one to write about.
This week we also read various Eric Carle books. In this lesson I read the book The Grouchy Ladybug and the children generated a list of things that make them grouchy. Then we discussed ways we could make a grouchy person happy. I loved the ideas the children came up with!
This week we continued working with patterns in math, but added on growing patterns. The children reviewed repeating patterns and then worked with growing patterns in this Promethean board activity.
In this lesson, the children used Froot Loops to create growing pattern bracelets.
We finished our unit on American Symbols this week by focusing on a different symbol each day. The children enjoyed pretending to be the Statue of Liberty after making a crowns.
The first Crestfest was a success! Have your child tell you about the pictures in the slideshow.