We had a surprise visit earlier this week.  A mysterious box showed up in our classroom after recess.  I was surprised as well since I was in a "meeting" with another teacher during recess. *wink wink*

Check out that excitement!  They could not wait to see what was in the box!  

We were so surprised to see it was a fox.  The fox works perfectly for our woodland theme classroom.  Hmmmm....I wonder why?

Once we opened the box we got to pass her around.  One of them told me they saw her smile.  How sweet is that.  

After we passed her around we had to name her.  There were many suggestions such as Elsa, Cinderella and even my name.  I had to draw the line there because that would be too confusing. In the end we ended up naming her Foxy.  We love being able to read to her and give her hugs when we get upset.  She is also a great listener.  Especially for those tattle tellers!

We have just finished up our apple activities last week.  My kinders had fun graphing, writing and learning about apples.  We started of our apple unit by tasting apples.  We made predictions which apples would be sweet, sour, the best and the worst.

Next we became science investigators. You can get the packet here.

We even made apple eruptions!  My kinders loved this activity.  They could have done this all day.

We made predictions if our apples would sink or float.

On our last day of our apple unit we made applesauce.  Only two of my kinders didn't like it.  All day they were saying they could smell the cinnamon.

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of our apple activities.

Holy moly I can not believe we are in the middle of September already.  Last week we finished up our color week(s).  I wish I had taken more pictures of each color activity but sadly I didn't.  Here is a look of some of the activities.

Everyday we sang the song and highlighted the color word of the day.  You can find the songs here.

Red was first, we read The Little Red Hen and made this craft.

 Next was green, we read Go Away Big Green Monster.You can find this craft here.

 For purple we read Harlod and the Purple Crayon.  Then kinders drew a picture of where the purple crayon took them.  This student drew Disney World as you can see with the Mickey ears.  Look at that detail!

On blue day we read Blueberries For Sal and created our own bucket of blueberries.

For favorite color day we did a bunch of Brown Bear Activities.  I do not know where the original source of this is. If you do please let me know so I can give credit where credit is do.

On our last color day we made a rainbow hair coloring book. You can find this book here.