Fall

Fall Fun!  

WOW!  We can't believe that it's already October. We are off to a wonderful start. The kids are so eager and ready to learn.  We continue to work on our manners in the classroom by asking the children to raise their hands, sit in their spots instead of laying down (we don't want anyone to get stepped on), keeping our hands to ourselves and learning not to touch the friends next to them (especially when they don't want to be touched). The last one has been the hardest for us, but we know we can do it!!  Talking at home about good manners at school can be helpful.  :)

We talked about circles this week.  We even sang a song about Cindy Circle. 

Cindy Circle

"tune: Are you sleeping?"

Cindy Circle, Cindy Circle

Just one line, just one line

Make it round, make it round 

That's just fine, that's just fine

We had a whole bunch of shapes on the ground and the children got to come up and pick a shape and decide if it was a circle or not a circle.  

 As you can see, most picked a circle. :) Ask your child which one they picked. 

We read the story, "Mouse Shapes"

After we read the story, we got to roll the dice and see which shape we rolled. 

During work time, we could put together our own shapes and make a picture. 

Can you see Mrs. Porcaro's picture hanging on the wall in the picture?  Do you know what I made?  If not, ask your child and I bet they can tell you.

Here are some of the children making their own shape pictures. 

We heard one of Mrs. Porcaro's favorite fall stories. We talked about what scarecrows are and what they do. 

A resourceful chicken seeks the help of her farm animal friends to solve a problem, while giving something of herself along the way. Chicken really admires Scarecrow's hat. Scarecrow would gladly trade his hat for a walking stick to rest his tired arms. Chicken doesn't have a walking stick to trade, but she knows someone who does. Thus begins her quest to find items to trade among her farm friends, all to obtain a walking stick to swap for Scarecrow's hat. 

We made a basket to go along with the story. The kids can take the basket out and retell the story. 

Before we work at the art tables, we must put on an apron and button it up. 

During art, we made fall trees.  

 

At our cutting and pasting, we had out leaves where we could snip construction paper strips and glue them on a leaf. 

Here we are getting water to wash our hands. 

 Washing our hands!

 Mrs. Betko using rhythm sticks with the kids. They are tapping along with "The ants go marching". 

Work time!  

This child is working hard on folding this napkin. This will help him when he has to fold his papers at the easel to put in his work box. 

Here's a child folding her easel paper to put in her work box. 

Hole punching apples

Working on our numbers

Some of our 4 year olds working on the letter Aa

Color worms

 

Matching is always fun to do!

Stacking cups biggest to smallest can be hard work. 

We love working on our magnetic boards. We are learning our letters and making words.

Here is one of our 3 years olds. 

Here is one of our 4 year olds. 

We can even use our magnetic boards to learn our numbers.

Spooning

 Practicing tracing their names

 Dip dotting the first letter of our name

 Beading-helps build finger muscles

Mrs. Betko used the felt board to tell a story. Ask your child what happened during the story?