Some students used corks to stamp paint onto yellow apples. This activity helps to strengthen their hand-eye co-ordination as well as fine motor skills (pre-writing skills). It also helps the children practice their color recognition.
We also made Apple Pie Paint (from the Teach Preschool website). We put some apple pie filling and food colouring in a blender and added some tempera paint for consistency. You can use cornstarch instead of tempera paint so it's edible! The students stamped the paint using apples.
Other students explored our Fall sensory bin to sort and graph leaf colours that they pulled out. This helps them to learn counting principles such as one to one correspondence (each object gets one count) as well as Data Management. It also reinforces their colour identification.
We also put cinnamon scented playdough, cinnamon sticks, and other Fall items for the children to try; it smells so yummy! It also helps the children to strengthen their fine motor skills, which build the foundation for printing later on.
We added an acorn number matching activity for the children to practice learning about quantity (how much) and subitizing (recognizing small quantities without having to count every time, like the patterns on number cubes).
Apples!!!
Today, Ms. Switzer and I talked to the students about different types of apples. They got to taste red Delicious, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious apples. We took a survey of which they liked best and Red Delicious won!! A great end to the week.
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