Today my son and I did some apple themed activities.
We first read the book Ten Red Apples
Before reading the book I gave my son 10 apples with numbers on them. I asked him to put them in the correct numerical order.
As I read the book I asked him to take away the number that I was reading about. This helped him understand not only the concept that the animals were eating the apples one by one (one-to-one correspondence), but it also helped him understand about counting backwards.
He loved this activity so much that I am pretty sure we read the book 5 times before I finally had to move on.
Later my son made an apple picture out of a lower case a. He colored the letter, a stem, and a leaf.
I cut them out and then he glued everything to a piece of paper and added 5 seeds in the center. I got this idea from Totally Tots.
We also learned this finger play today.
Finally, my son also used a piece of ribbon to lace a large laminated apple with holes punched around the edges. He was very serious about his work and chose a combination of a running stitch and a whipstitch though he didn’t know that was what he was doing. 🙂
There are still several other apple activities I want to do with him this week, but I think we have had a good start to our study of the letter A.
