The Letter Aa

For the week of Aa we read:

Graphing Apples: We tasted a piece of a yellow, green & red apples. We then graphed which apple we liked best.

Friday's Snack: We make apple smiles for our cooking center using 2 apple slices for the lips, peanut butter, & mash mellows for the teeth.

We made Johnny Appleseed hats using black construction paper, a brown handle I drew on brown construction paper & apple cut-outs which the students colored yellow, green, or red. Students wore these home on Friday.

This photo I found on Pinterest reminds me on how me make our Apple Art.

For the Apple Art we create, students ball up red, green, or yellow tissue paper & paste the tissue paper onto the paper plate. The students then add a brown stem (strip of brown construction paper) to the back of the paper plate.

Click on the link below for the Letter A flipchart for Active Inspire created by Brandie Simmons:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sx7aq46t5gbdns9/letter%20a%20flipchart.flipchart

We learn about the letter Aa using Starfall.com

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/letter-a/load.htm?f

Check out Totally Tots for Alphabet Crafts like the photo above.

I found a few good printables for our Apple Unit on MakingLearningFun.com. Check out the links below for some of the printables.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e18nodzsx6yg8d9/ABCdottodot-A.gif

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5t226mzazjfudca/ABCprintPrac-apple.gif

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4hengryszfztol/AppleLacingABC.gif

My 2011-2012 Lesson Plan for the letter A--- https://www.dropbox.com/s/13oxozi5dcpevm5/wk4_The%20letter%20A_LP_2011-12.doc