stART- Up, Up, Up! It's Apple Picking Time

A story + art = a great stART!!!This week for our story we read Up, Up, Up!, It's Apple Picking Time by Jody Fickes Shapiro. A perfect fall story illustrating an extended family coming together to pick and then sell apples. For our project we did Apple Prints (of course!)... the girls really enjoyed this project on their first "official" day of preschool...

First I had the girls paint their paper green...for the tree leaves...
After they semi-dried...they did Apple Prints... (making the apples on the trees)
Ryleigh really liked this activity...

The finished project...an apple tree...

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stART -Happy Halloween Curious George

A Story + Art = a great stART

Happy Halloweeen, Curious George is one of Ryleigh's new favorite books. This week we did "Abstract" pumpkin paintings to go with the Halloween/ Fall theme. I had her use a toilet paper roll and an apple. She really liked all the painting and wearing her "mock".

Ryleigh really likes picking which section to read first.













Painting with the cardboard roll...












Moving on to the apple....














She really liked using the apple to paint with...we did several apple paintings this week!!!!









The abstract pumpkins......
before the stems...













After they dried, I added stems with a marker. I love how they came out :)










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TOT SCHOOL WEEK THREE- 29 MONTHS

As is the new routine, this week started with Musical Mondays and ended with Dance class. One day Ryleigh had two friends come over to "play projects". All in all, a productive week!!!

Ryleigh painting with different "brushes", including an apple.












Working on some fine motor skills- she loves this "game"...straws in a Parmesan cheese container from BJ's (so it is longer than the ones in the grocery store)...












Practicing spooning with some assorted beans into an egg carton...









When the girls were over, I decided to do The Letter of the Week- This week was A. I got this project from No Time For Flashcards.














The Alligator with Teeth...













The finished A is for Alligator.












Next the girls did some apple painting... we started with white but then added additional colors. This was much neater than I thought it was going to be.... :)











"Beading"...with pasta onto a pipe cleaner.... a little easier then using string... The girls turned them into bracelets.










Ryleigh using some markers and stickers to make a picture. Markers are a new thing for us...













Ryleigh with her puzzles...she is doing two at the same time...I guess to "up" the challenge...












Ryleigh and Braeden snuggling together.











Elmo is full....so Tot School concludes for this week...