Gan Aleph's Amazing Apples!

If you walk down the halls of Yavneh and heard some children munching and crunching, it was probably the sound of Gan Aleph tasting apples! This week, Gan Aleph learned aboutapples through literacy, science, math, movement and of course it did not go without some special snacks (like apple jacks)!We learned about apple trees and how they change through the different seasons. After reading The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons, the children made their own apple tree seasons book! They used different art materials to depict what the apple tree looks like during the seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

We played an apple matching game in which the children had to match upper case and lower case letters to complete a full apple shape.

The children tasted red, yellow and green apples and decided which one they liked the best. We wrote about it and we used our math skills to graph their apple choice in a bar graph.

We predicted what would happen if we left a sliced apple out in the classroom. The children will soon begin to see the apple

changing and drying out! When the apple turns dry we will talk

about dried fruit and taste dried apples and apple chips!

We painted trees to go with our apple writings! We encourage you to come visit our outside bulletin board where you will see these beautiful apples!

As Gan Aleph sits down to their table to dip their apples in honey, they will surely be able to tell you some amazing facts about apples! What a delicious week this was!