Abundant Apples!

Last week the children participated in many activities pertaining to apples.  I read Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss and the children practiced using one-to-one correspondence to count paper apples. After choosing an animal character from the story to color, each child glued his/her apples on top of the animal.  Their work looks terrific on the bulletin board!

Counting and Cardinality MA.4.  Count many kinds of concrete objects and actions up to ten, using one-to-one correspondence, and accurately count as many as seven things in a scattered configuration.

The children also practiced cutting and tearing paper to decorate an apple cutout.

The children truly enjoyed doing the "Way Up High in the Apple Tree" finger play!

Way up high in the apple tree,

Five little apples hung over me.

I shook that tree as hard as I could,

Down came an apple and

Mmmm, it was good!

Repeat the rhyme until all the apples are off of the tree!