A is for Apple

Apple day is a MUST when we start preschool. This is one we did with our preschool group of 9 kids this year.

• Journals
1. Write a big A and a (have them trace it or draw it by themselves).
2. Add Apple stickers to the page, either on the line of the A’s or decorate the page with them.

• Apple ‘A and ‘a’ Tree picking!
1. Always a favorite game. Use butcher paper or newsprint (from your local newspaper) and hang up a big piece with a tree drawn on it.
   **You could also do this outside on a fence with chalk…we dont have a fence!
2. Using apple sticky notes (or these), write A’s and a’s on them and stick them to the tree.
   **We’ve also done this with the alphabet, writing ABC’s on the apples, not just A’s.
3. On another piece of butcher paper or newsprint, draw a basket for the “picked” apples.
   **You can either have 2 baskets, one for capital a’s and one for lowercase a’s, or a big basket with A’s and a’s writen on it.
4. The Game: Pick apples and sort them, by putting them in the matching basket or on the matching A’s.

• BOOK: Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss
1. Play with apple bean bags (read THIS post for detailed instructions to make these).
• Sort them by size (we have two sizes, big and small).
• Put them on their heads. See how many they can stack!
• With apples on their heads, try to walk, run, jump, crawl, etc!
• Roll the die and play pretend baking with apples (think pies, applesauce, etc).
2. Print a picture of your preschoolers head at the bottom of a paper. With apple stickers, stick 10 apples stacked above their head.

• Apple Sensory Bin
1. Fill a small plastic bin with rice, oatmeal, wheat, or the like.
2. Add red, yellow and green pom poms (different sizes is even better) and magnent letters (letters in their name or ABC’s).
3. Give them a pair of kid friendly tweezers and have them pinch out what they find in their bins.
• As they pull the pom poms out, sort according to color and size!
• As they pull the letters out, have them match them on a paper or spell their name.

• PICK APPLES!!

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