Letter Aa Week!

Well, we made it through our first 5-day week! Lots of great handwriting practice on letter A to start off right - some of the students were even finding and reading "apple" in a story! We did a lot of cutting practice this week to see where everyone was at and how much help we'll be needing from our amazing occupational therapist who will start seeing students individually next week!

Some of our letter A projects included a story map of Johnny Appleseed (this was with my 3rd grade alternate assessment group), apple stamping, and paper plate apples for labeling the parts of an apple! We also made apple growing sequences, a favorite apple bar graph, and sorted paper squares into red, green, and yellow apples on a large piece of butcher paper - that one took a lot of group work, but we did it together!

I was shocked today at recess to see something that I helped plant this summer actually grow into something! There are two garden boxes on our school's preschool playground that our summer preschoolers helped clean up and planted a few seeds in. I do not have a green thumb to say the least, but with the weather's cooperation over the last month or so, I'm happy to say, we're growing radishes, pumpkins, sunflowers, basil, and some pretty wildflowers! I just had to share a picture of these too, since everyone that knows me knows I can't grow a plant for anything! Haha!

Well, that's it for this week. I'm working on keeping up with the blog and getting photos to share with you all, so I hope you're enjoying it! See you all next week for letter Bb and Weather Week!
:)Amanda