A is for Apple!

I am very, very behind in posting. Hopefully you can use these to plan far in the future :)

September is a great time to have an apple unit. 

Not only are apples in full abundance, but Johnny Appleseed's birthday is September 26th.

We read a book about Johnny Appleseed. 

Little Miss thought it was great to wear a pan on her head just like Johnny.

I had used these letter cards in my kindergarten class, and was so excited to pull them out again to help Little Miss learn her letters!

She stamped her fingerprints inside the outline of the letters. 

Super fun for her, and easy clean up for me since it's laminated!

We worked on one-to-one correspondence and following simple rules.

She did pretty good...

We also read "Ten Apples up on Top!" I drew Little Miss on a piece of our end roll**. And then she used the potato stamp that I made to look like an apple and stamped the apples on top of her head.

Oops! She got a little too excited about stamping. Luckily, we fixed it on our paper :)

And what would a day about apples be without apple prints?

Our "stamps" of the day.

Little Miss loved the stamping sooo much, that we decided to decorate envelopes and send some notes in the mail.

Paint Samples and Silly Bandz

Here's a fun sorting activity that is cheap and easy to put together.

Grab some paint samples from your local hardware store. (I laminated mine).

Pick up silly bandz. I've noticed them on clearance at a lot of stores. Even if they're not on sale, they're very affordable. I found these princess shaped rings at my grocery store for $0.79 each!

Now let them sort! 

We sorted by color.

And we sorted by shape.

Happy Sorting!

green

I realized that I forgot to share what I did for the color green. 

Here you go....

We went on a green scavenger hunt.

Little Miss found:

GRASS

(putting things in her green container)

green twig branches, the bottom of a green celery

Now to the fun part! We gathered all of our green things and our paints... 

...and painted using our green items as "brushes". 

Celery stamping makes some pretty awesome designs!

For snack we had vanilla yogurt and made swirls with green food coloring.

DIY Magnetic Alphabet

Ever get bored of the same old magnetic letters you find?

I was. I decided to make my own using cute stickers. I put the stickers in the laminating pockets, ran them through my laminator, cut them out and added adhesive magnets to the back.

These are so much cuter!

red and yellow

Colors, colors everywhere.

This day we worked on the colors 

RED

&

YELLOW

Little Miss started by sorting different items from the playroom into the red and yellow containers. I threw in some "decoys" to test her color knowledge.

Hooray for sorting!

I taught Little Miss the song "Mary Wore a Red Dress." I had a grab bag of different red colored clothing items. She put each item on, posed for a picture, and we sang a new verse for each one.

Yellow.

Little Miss used a lemon and some corn on the cob to make yellow prints.

She had fun rolling the corn around, but didn't like the mess it made on her hands.

And we ended the fun with some more sidewalk paint.

Sidewalk Paint

Sidewalk Paint. 

It's fun.

Super easy to make.

{Best. Thing. Ever.}

Here's how to make it:

Equal parts water to cornstarch (mixed until smooth).

Add food coloring.

That's it!

Easy, huh? 

I had lots of fun painting too. Here's a picture of the difference between the dry and wet paint. I love to watch it change into it's "chalky state".

Little Miss had fun dumping the paint.

Shape Bingo

After learning circles, triangles, and squares, it was time for review. 

We started the review by watching this video. It was a catchy little tune, so cute!

I made these **Shape Bingo cards with the bingo "chips" in mind. Skittles were the circle markers and Starbursts were the markers for both the squares and triangles (cut in half to make the triangles). 

{Rule: Finish the whole bingo card before eating the treats.}

Little Miss had fun picking a piece of candy and matching it on her bingo card. She was a little hesitant with the first few. Once she knew I wasn't going to help her match the shapes, she started matching the candies with their corresponding shapes and colors so that she could eat them.

Finally enjoyed the sweet success of completing the bingo card.

Little Miss talked about this activity for the next couple days. I considered it a real success.

**I'm working on sharing my shape bingo card file with you. Check back soon!