This past Wednesday, we discussed what apple trees give us and all of the uses for apples. The children tasted hot apple cider that Jackson and I bought from the farmer's market. Boy, was it delicious! Syan and Michaela said that they liked their apple cider cold but the boys enjoyed the hot stuff.
We read Shel Siverstein's The Giving Tree. Several of the children commented on how much they liked the story. Jackson said that he liked the story because the tree gave everything she had to the boy and she was happy to share.
The children made apple tree collages with tissue paper. Charlie really enjoyed this activity and he covered his entire page with red and beautiful shades of green tissue papers:-) Syan and Michaela cut feathers so that they could create birds for their trees. Andrew and Jackson spent a little bit of time filling their branches with leaves and apples. I've posted a picture of Syan, Michaela, and Charlie holding up their art work.
Today, we prayed for some of our soldiers. I am not quite sure how we even got on this subject. Children come up with all sorts of things at circle time:-) Anyway, Andrew's Uncle George is in Afghanistan so we had a short geography lesson using the globe and we said a special prayer for George and the other soldiers. Andrew and Jackson were proud to claim Uncle George. Jackson said, "he's not really my uncle but I know him so well that he is kind of like my uncle, right?"
I pulled out the costumes for the kids. Actually, we went through some of Jackson's old costumes and added them to our dress up box in the school. I captured a few pictures of the children in their disguises.
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Love the prayer for Uncle George and all our armed forces. I can't believe you can read the Giving Tree without crying! That story makes me want to cry (in a good way). Maybe it is the pregnancy hormones...just thinking about it makes me tear up! Thanks for being such a wonderful teacher, Nannie!
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