Letter A week- Apples, Ants, Alligators, and Astronauts (Day 2)

Day 2 Today we continued to talk about apples because lets just be honest, there are SO many fun and cute apple crafts out there that it is way to hard to narrow them down! Tuesday (apples) -Apple rolls -Apple lacing -Torn paper Apple tree Short vowel apples (reading cvc words) File folder apple counting Apple fractions book Which is different? Make apple muffins Apple Rolls  (No time for flashcards)  This was a little more challenging that I thought it would be.  I cut the toilet paper roll and then had them paint it  We then used a stapler to add the green painted leaf.... Apple lacing (No time for flashcards)  We...

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Letter A week- Apples, Ants, Alligators, and Astronauts! (Overview)

I planned WAY too much for this week and didn't get to all of the activities that I had planned on my lesson plan.  Here are the ones that we got to through!   (Green are activities that need materials and yellow are printable activities.   Each activity activity is linked back it it's original source) Monday (apples) Tuesday (apples) Wednesday (ant, apple cont.) Thursday (astronaut, alligator) -Apple books -Lower case apple a -Apple rolls -Letter A for ants Ant books   A for alligator and Alligator books Painting- apple prints on a tree -Apple lacing -Torn paper Apple tree -Color by number ant -Capital lower case sorting  -Alligator color words -Color page (pg 80) -Apple...

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Letter A Week- Apples, Ants, Astronauts, and Alligators! (Day 1 activities)

Letter of the Week (Aa)  Day 1 Monday (apples) -Apple books -Lower case apple a Painting- apple prints on a tree -Apple measuring (source) -Apple cutting practice -Matching apples to numbers -Basket of apples Color word  (pg 8-9) Apple spinner graphing game  Make apple scented playdough and play with animal crackers in them We started our week learning about A is for APPLE!  Here is a link to some really great Apple books from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas.  We found most of these at our local library.   Lowercase letter a   (No time for flash cards) This was a great activity that required very little...

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