Fall Fun

The time is flying by! We wrapped up our fall theme and next week will celebrate Halloween with lots of Mad Science activities. It's short notice but please try to bring a large white tee that we can use for their lab coats. Try to stay warm this weekend!

Jumbo Alphabet: "F" is for Fingerprints

mixing red and yellow paint; pinecones were added to use as either a painting tool or a canvas

squirrel counting cups

more painting, these friends were painting together

Our shape for October was the square so I added these sample tiles to the building materials and they got very creative with them.

Beautiful day for a nature walk!

categorizing squares and rectangles

"F" is for flag stickers

square collages

proud of his journal entry!

another autumn counting activity that included some cutting practice; I sent the extras home but there's no need to bring them back to school, just something you can work on at home

I evaluated the kids with a simple shape assessment and this little feller made his own version! 

Our Random Week

Two random and fun topics this week: fire safety and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! We hope the kids learned a lot from our generous fire fighters. They really enjoyed show and tell this week as well and brought in some very interesting items! We will do this again soon. I have been looking forward to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs day since I planned it over the summer! I was inspired by a sensory table idea I saw online and thought we should make a whole day out of one of my favorite books. It did not disappoint! 

Show and Tell!!!!

Thank you for all of the wonderful "E" words! 

Pasta, play food, and city blocks made a fabulous mess in our sensory table today! We loved it!

spaghetti and meatballs; great cutting and glueing practice

We sorted color stickers and matched them to the corresponding color word.

The kids love our phonics buckets. I placed the A -E buckets out today and dumped all of the contents out for them to sort through. This happened to a certain extent, but mostly the dinosaur, bat, dalmatian, and fried egg battled over the envelope with an ant inside. :)

"E" is for Elbows!

Hello families! I was not at school on Friday and left my camera! But I will fill you in and add some pictures as soon as I can. We added an E to our jumbo alphabet with some very silly elbow painting, we had a special visitor read us "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed Some Leaves",  and we did some great fall art that will be decorating our classroom next week. The children are really getting the hang of our Wednesday Writing Centers. They spend time using their workbooks, strengthening their hands with play dough, and making letters with our wooden Handwriting Without Tears lines. We will slowly add new centers starting in November. Next week we will have a visit from the fire truck and a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Day!! No school on Wednesday but there will be PDO.

painting with our elbows

Here is our special guest reading a very silly fall book.

The kiddos are getting used to me carrying around a camera to document what happens in our room. They tracked me and my camera down so that I could take a pic of their completed shape puzzle! Loved their excitement and their teamwork!

These are the wooden lines we use during our handwriting centers.

Chapel time! Ms. Rachel is helping us learn that we can always trust God to take care of us and love us, using some wonderful songs and Bible stories.

cutting practice

E I E I O! Farm Week

What a wonderful week! So many fun and new things to explore and although our farm field trip was rained out, we made the most of it and had a lovely Friday. Be sure to check out our fall bulletin board in the hallway. We are "falling" in love with reading and will be keeping track of all the books we read together from now until Thanksgiving. Next week: letter E and autumn adventures!

"D" is for Dulcimer! The kids really enjoyed playing and experimenting with sounds on the hammered dulcimer .

This little learner decided to help me with pricing our Farmer's Market produce. Stay away from those $11 pumpkins!

Another addition to our Jumbo Alphabet with some dog stickers

corn kernels in the sensory table, later in the week shape puzzle pieces were added in

They used glue colored with food coloring to make their dotted Ds. This activity took a lot of control and patience .

Think about all the fine motor and cognitive skills that went in to creating this play money for the market! I was so excited for him, he worked really hard on this independent project.

Our rained out field trip turned in to a very fun day full of reading and puzzles.

A spur of the moment activity to help make our rainy day special, they loved experimenting with the light projections! We will definitely be using this tool again.

Every once in a while the writing table becomes THE place to be and today was one of those days! They rediscovered their journals and spent a lot of time coloring and writing.