Apples Unit Plan

Being a teacher for seven years has really helped with the homeschooling of the twinkies! Although I have never taught in the lower grades have have definitely never taught Pre-K, I'm just trying to use what I know to plan the best activities for my kiddos! For the month of September, we focused on an Apple Theme. I started the planning by picking the books we would read. These are all books I had from my classroom collection. We read at least one of these a day. Many times we read two or three!

Then we worked on tree activities. Here are some of the tree activities we did:

• tore paper "leaves" for fine motor development
• matched colored stickers to the coordinating Xs on a tree to make the apples
• put different colored apples to match with letters (ie-capital letters are red apple stickers, lowercase are green apple stickers, non-letters are yellow)
• add the coordinating number of apple stickers to match the number on the tree trunk
• added apple rings to the tree using a toilet paper tube dipped in red paint

Back to Blogging!

Well, it has been an extremely long time since I did any blogging, but with a full time teaching job and twins, it was just way to hard to find the time. We've had quite a timultuous summer, which included a big move and a job change for me! During this difficult time, we found out boy twinkie is allergic to A LOT, which makes it a challenge to plan his meals. But some wonderfully miraculous things have happened as well. We've moved closer to family and I am working as an adjunct at a local college, so the twinkies no longer have to go to daycare! While I thoroughly loved the daycare we were attending, it has been my desire since the twins were born to stay at home with them. I am so blessed! God is good all the time and ALL things work together for the good of those that love HIM!