This morning we reread our story Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchinson. Reading research shows that reading and rereading texts helps improve a child’s development as a reader. During this week we will read and reread our theme story each day.
Today we made an apple shaped counting book to correspond with our story. I made a printable for this activity for you to use if you want to too! Supplies you will need are: apple shapes cut out and stapled with 10 blank pages inside, red paint, clothes pin, and pom pom. You’ll pinch the pom pom between the clothes pin to make an apple dot stamp.
We started with one apple dot on the first page and each page we stamped one more apple dot counting up to ten on the last page. (I helped a little more as we got closer to 10. It’s hard for those little hands to stamp that many dots on small pages)
As the stamping progresses it does get a little more difficult to differentiate the apples from one another so adding a few little details does help. After her book was made and dried we went through it counting the apples. Each page I would have her touch each stamped apple dot as she counted. She loved the book and was so proud of her creation!
The skills we practiced today were: concepts of print, literacy, numeracy, one-to-one correspondence.
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