Apple Tree

Today we were talking about apples, and apple trees. We talked about all the different colours of apples, and that they are all called different things. The kids thought that was crazy! After finding out that apples grow on trees, we decided to make an apple tree.

First I drew out a bunch of apples on paper. Then I got some paints and sponges ready.

Then I let the kids go crazy with their sponges and the paint.

While the apples were drying, I made a tree out of brown paper, and Danika made some leaves and a pumpkin for around the tree. (she did apples too, I just didn't get a picture of her for some reason). After the apples were dry, we cut them out. And then we taped them to the wall on the tree.

Fall Fun

I thought since I have a couple minutes, I would sit down and post about some of the things we have been doing.

We are talking about Fall right now, so this morning we made a fall colours collage. They are so easy, but let the kids use their imaginations, and inner artist!

First we ripped up a few pieces of paper- red, orange, and yellow. Then got some green paint and a sponge ready. Then we needed some glue and some brown paper to finish our masterpieces!

First the kids glued the ripped up pieces of paper onto the brown one.

Then we took a small amount of green paint and sponged it onto the paper when we were done.

And then we have our fall colours collage.

We were also able to get outside last friday and start collecting leaves for our halloween decorations. I am with everyone else, it is a bit too early for them, but we live in a condo complex, and they come and rake up our leaves. So, we have to get out and get them when we can. Since they started to fall already, we had to use our nice day and do it.

I bought the little ghost bags for the kids, and we made an activity out of it. First finding yellow leaves, then red, orange, brown and then green. The kids had a great time walking around trying to find the different colours!

G is for Green

Today we did G is for Green. Still keeping with the St. Patrick's Day theme for the week.

I started by getting the stuff ready. I cut out a G with regular paper, and collected items that were green.



Then the kids all colored the G with different types of green colors- markers, crayons, pencil crayons.



Then we glued different green items on the letter. We used cut up paper, tissue paper, Popsicle sticks, foam stickers, and pom pom balls. (we were going to put glitter too, but I forgot to get it out!)




And then we had our final project!
During this we talked about the letters in the word GREEN (I wrote them out on the letter), and other things that start with the letter G, and also what things are green!