Things Beginning: Apple Week... actually two apple weeks

Inspired by living in Washington and it being fall time just around the corner, I decided to have apple week be our first themed week to include themed reading, crafts, snacks and maybe a field trip. In retrospect, it ended up being two weeks and believe it or not, living in the Western side of Washington it's pretty hard to find an apple orchard to go to for picking apples. But believe me, with all the books I checked out about apples, I think Mac was done with apple picking. (Reminder to self, Kindergarten they lose focus pretty easily still.)

Snack was apples, apples and peanut butter

Our two apple songs (Mac keeps requesting more songs because in preschool they had a million songs!) were from 1+1+1=1.

Journal time I asked her to draw something related to the theme. She drew a picture for her cousin to guess which apple she liked best.

Books I picked up that we liked:
How do Apples Grow by Maestro
Apples by Gibbons (this book has extras for older kids)
Amelia Bedelias First Apple Pie
Autumn is for Apples
Johnny Appleseed by Kellogg (little old for this age)
The Apple Pie Tree
Up Up Up It's Apple Picking Time
Apple Picking Time by Slawson (she didn't like)
Apples and Pumpkins by Rockwell (too young for her but she liked it)

Here are the crafts we did inspired first by 1+1+1=1 blog. The first two are painting crafts (http://jennwa.blogspot.com/2008/10/apple-print-apple-tree.html and http://www.sillyeaglebooks.com/2011/09/fall-kids-craft-apple-tree-art.html), which thankfully on the foot craft it was a nice day. The third craft was the paper plate apple craft where you tear pieces of construction paper to make the apple and then cut out a little branch for the top with a leaf- . http://jennwa.blogspot.com/2008/09/paper-plate-apple-craft.html