Today was a fun day of apples!  We went out and picked our apples off the tree.  We put seeds on a counting worksheet and made a tree with our colored ink pads and added leaves and apples with our fingers. 

We had a tasting party of all different kinds of apples.  The favorites were the Honey Crisp, and the Golden Delicious.  We all took turns with the apple peeler, and we really liked eating the apple worms that came off the peeler!  We put our apples in a pot and cooked them all afternoon with some cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar, water, and lemon juice.  For snack we will eat the applesauce and taste our hard work.  Here’s some pictures of our apple peeling buddies!

We are talking about roots, flowers, and seeds.  We did an experiment with celery stalks and put them in blue water to see how they drink up the water.  They are like little straws and the flowers roots do the same thing in the soil.  We made cute flowers with roots, and colored yellow flowers and wrote the letter Yy.

We candled our eggs and found that 11 of our 12 eggs have chicks growing in them!  We know they all won’t hatch, but we are excited!  Today we made predictions on our eggs and what will come out and the color of the chicks.  Here are our results:  Scarlett said the green ones will have black, the white one, yellow, and the brown ones might have brown?  Ella said the green ones will have blue- the white, yellow-and the brown, red.  Avery said the green, pink-the white, white- and the brown, brown chicks.  Liam said the chicks will be blue and purple.  Blake said the green, orange- the white one will have a bunny!- the brown one will have a cow!  We will see who is right and what comes out of our eggs!  We cracked open the only egg that wasn’t even fertilized, so there wasn’t a chick.  Whew!  I’d hate to make a mistake, but it’s pretty obvious when you candle it, that there isn’t a chick at all!  Check out or chick pics!

Today we read Blueberries For Sal.  We did a Bb practice page, and then painted with real blueberry paint!  We are having blueberry muffins for snack that we made this morning, and had blueberries for our lunch.  We are stained with blueberries, but they sure were good!

We have had a busy couple weeks of preschool!  We have done the letter Aa and are now basking in Bb’s.  We read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?  We painted brown bears, and today, we colored all the animals in the clothes line, and put them in the order you read them in the book.  I’m sure they can tell you the story by now.  We also had fun with our mats and M & Ms.  What a way to learn, by eating our favorite junk food!