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 As part of our Fall unit, we read the story We're Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger. Then, we took a walk around our playground to collect leaves. When we got back to the classroom, we created leaf rubbings with our new finds. Click on the image below for a free printable if you would like to do this activity with your students.

If your class participates in Pizza Hut's Book It program, feel free to check out the printables I created a few years ago for students and parents. Just click on the image below to print forms for October through March.

Laura W. from UAFS,

I received a message from you today about the tap light segmenting picture you found through Pinterest. I'm trying to email you back, but it keeps coming back as undeliverable. I hope you read this! :)

Here's a link to the picture if you need it.
http://lilcountrykindergarten.blogspot.com/2011/02/daily-5-in-pictures.html

Blessings,
Marlana

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I found the following poem and added some graphics to it and made it easy to print and place in my kiddos daily Reading Binders.

The color version is for our projector and the black and white version is for our Reading Binders. We will use this as a shared reading text this week.  Just click on the pictures to get your copies.

I made a generic version of the words to put on sentence strips for our pocket chart, too.

I am so excited that it is almost fall! I love all the seasons for their very own special reasons, but fall is my definitely my favorite! I love the colors, the smells, the cool crisp air, the clothes, the decorations, the pumpkin patch field trip, bonfires, raking leaves, chili, s'mores and everything else that makes fall so wonderful!



Next week we will begin a two-week unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed. I have been searching for lots of new ideas to add to some of the ideas I've used in the past. I hope that you will like some of these links, too. I’m just wishing I had more time!
I haven’t linked to everything apple, just mainly what I think I might like to use.

Be sure to checkout the following link to search for great free/inexpensive downloadable apple printables from Scholastic.  Use code: 10THANKS for $10 worth of ebooks/printables. Expires 9/20/11
Scholastic Search: Apples

Letter Recognition

• Letter Aa Apple Worksheet
• Apples Up on Top Letter Recognition
• Apple Tree Capital and Lowercase Letter Matching
• Apple Tree Letter Assessment
• Fill in the Missing Letters

Emergent Readers

• Counting Apples Emergent Reader (color words)
• Five Apples Up on Top Emergent Reader (subtraction/one less)

Shared Reading

• Apple Poem, Apple Poem Student Version
• Apple Songs/Poems
• Apples, Apples Song/Bookmark
• Apple Songs and Poems 
• A-P-P-L-E Song (Fun for pocket charts!) 

Math

• Apple Math Booklet (I love this!) 
• Count the Apples Worksheet
• How Many Apples Worksheet
• Apple Baskets
• Apple Sequencing 1-5
• Apple Symmetry/Patterning Bracelet
• Apple Identify and Stamp Activity
• Apple Patterning with Pom Poms
• Apple Basket Count
• Apple Sets 1-12
• Fill in the Missing Numbers 

Science

• Apple Life Cycle Cards
• Life Cycle of an Apple Tree 
• Parts of an Apple Labeling Sheet 

Activities for Individuals or Small Groups

• Apple Quilt Block Puzzle use with this worksheet if you need an accountability page
• Apple 3-Column Graph
• Apple Bean Bags and Game Idea
• Roll & Color Apple Tree
• Apple Play Dough Mat
• Apple Grid Work Activity
• Pocket Chart Apples and Character Cards (goes with Ten Red Apples) 
• Apple Patterning and Apple Tree Number Match 

Question of the Day: Apples

• Do you like red apples? Green? Yellow?
• Have you ever swallowed an apple seed?
• Have you ever eaten a caramel apple?
• Have you ever seen an apple tree?
• Have you ever picked an apple from a tree?
• Have you ever peeled an apple?
• Do you like your apples peeled or with the skin left on?
• Have you ever made applesauce? Pie? Apple butter?

YouTube Videos

• Life Cycle of An Apple Tree
• 5 Red Apples
• I Love Apples
• I Love Apples (apple varieties)

Lots of Other Ideas
KinderKorner
Apples Theme Unit by ABC Teach
Apple Pickin' Time at The Virtual Vine

Be sure to add a link to your blog with your ideas about Apples & Johnny Appleseed to the linky party below.

What a thrilling week to open emails from wonderful readers! I wanted to take a minute to tell you how sincerely honored I was to read each of your emails and how humbled I am to receive the following awards. Thank you so much for your support of my blog. It means the world to me!

Thank you to www.teachercertification degrees.com for being named one of the Top 50 Early Education Blogs. The part about my blog made me giggle! I am so very appreciative and honored that my little ol' blog was mentioned. :)




Thank you, Pam from Can Do Kinders for listing my blog as one of your Top 10 Favorite Blogs. I truly appreciate your kindness! Please check out Pam's adorable blog by clicking on her button below. You will love her blog! It is colorful, creative and full of great Kindergarten content!







Jeannie from Class Full of "Special" Kinders awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award. She teaches Special Education Kindergarten and has an adorable blog! The pictures of her classroom are inspiring, as well! You can tell that she absolutely loves what she does and it shows. You would think she's been blogging forever, but she's a fairly new blogger. She just started blogging in July. I know she would love it if you visited and became a follower of her blog. :)

In order to accept this award you must follow these rules.  They are:

• Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.
• Share 7 things about yourself
• Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.

7 Things About Me

1. I love my family & being a Christian more than anything in the world!
2. I have a son who is 11 and a daughter who is 4. 
3. My husband and I were married in front of a waterfall in a state park in Tennessee.
4. I wear my heart on my sleeve. 
5. I love Dr. Pepper, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Sonic's cherry limeades WAY too much! 
6. I like things to be symmetrical. This can be very annoying to others. :) 
7. People laugh at my "winning" attitude. Every once in awhile it pays off though!

Even though I would absolutely love to pass on these awards to others, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I love so many blogs and I'm inspired in some way by each and every blog that I read. If your button is on my Blogs I Love page, feel free to accept these awards because I love you for a reason!

Our Principal showed the following video during a professional development work day last week. Tonight after school, I took my kiddos to the park and it made me crack up the minute I saw my son and daughter hop on the animals on the springs/coils. :)