Friday, September 23, 2011

Homemade Applesauce Recipe

Step 1: Cut up apples into small pieces
Step 2: Turn crock pot on low and add in apples
Step 3: Add cinnamon to taste
Step 4: Add 1/2 cup of sugar
Step 5: Stir and cook on low (continue stirring occasionally)
Step 6: Mash apples
Step 7: Serve and EAT -- add Red Hots to make it spicy & yummy













































Star of the Week September 12-16 and September 19-23



Meet Jasmin! She wants to a

basketball player and a ballerina when she grows up.

She loves helping others and has a big sister here at CAE.



Meet Abdel! He loves sports and playing

games on the wii. His favorite color is blue.



Week of September 19-23

Oh wow a fun week! Our letter was /Aa/ so we did

a lot with apples, yum yum. We had an apple taste test

and most of the class loved green apples the best. We also made

homemade applesauce -- delicious!











In math, we were studying patterns.

We read the book Pattern Fish and then

watercolored fish to make a pattern. We also

got to make really fun pattern hats. But I think

the kid's favorite pattern activity was playing

Candy Land. We discussed the patterns

on the board... and well, we just had fun too!
























The kids really LOVED our magnet unit

in science. They enjoyed testing items to see

if they were magnetic. They also liked trying

to get the repelling magnets to touch. But it is impossible!

Most of all, they really enjoyed just

getting to explore all of the different types of magnets..

and the power of magnets!



That's al ot of paperclips!



Wow, look at what Jayden made!





magnetic tennis balls





Tyler found out the legs on his chair are magnetic.














That's a lot of nuts and bolts!










Friday, September 16, 2011

Week of September 12-16

This week our letter was Mm. We made a Mm word web, studied the Animalia letter Mm page, graphed our Mm show n tell, graphed the names that start with Mm, sorted by the Mm sound and read silly books (If you Give a Moose a Muffin and Monsters Need Haircuts too). Our password was we and we wrote sentences using we. In math, we were working on sorting. We sorted everything from bugs to pom poms. We also made glittery pretzel freedom necklaces, a replica of the US flag made out of the kindergartener's handprints and discuss what freedom really means. It was a fantastic week!



Mariah, Emmy and Ava work on writingpasswords during reading group time.



Mm Animalia -- circling the pictures that start with Mm




eating muffins after reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin




Emerson's moose and her muffin



Abdel works hard on sorting the poms by color.



Jayden sorts the poms by size.





Sorting the creepy crawlies!




Jasmin sorts buttons by color.



The key sorting center was one of everyone's favorites.

It was also challenging.



Salma sorts the keys.




E
Emmy sorts by color.





Mariah sorts the bugs.







Can you guess the sort?






Tammer sorting the bugs.



Friday, September 9, 2011

Week of Sept. 6-9

We had a great week learning about 3d shapes,

writing sentences and practicing Jack and Jill.

The kids really enjoyed the leapster center this week

and we will continue it next week.



Jack and Jill


Georgia practices writing her classmates names.



The computer center is always a big hit.
Starfall.com is AMAZING!






Mariah completed the entire alphabet puzzle by herself!




Busy at centers.






Hala writes her sentence, "I am in a car."