Preschool 10/8

Theme:
Fall

We talked more about squirrels today and where we think they might live. We made a bear cave under the table and they enjoyed hiding out under there.

Centers
Had fun playing with the Halloween sensory bin. Digging through black beans and orange rice is so mesmerising! Even I love feeling it pour through my hands over and over. :)

Color matching with paint samples.

We played a dice game with leaves. They took turns rolling the big dice, counting out how many it landed on and then choosing that many leaves from the pile to stick onto their tree. We did about 2 rounds of this before their patience started to wear thin and they all started just grabbing leaves to stick on. The concept was good though! It was good for them though because they all needed to practice getting the paper off the backs of the stickers.

They traced some lines I had written on paper also. Curved, wiggly and straight. Good practice in preparing to write letters.

Snack

Carrots & crackers (both orange like our color of the month!)

Tatum likes showing me what she's eating. :)

Preschool 10/6

Theme:

Fall Is Here!, day 2

Today we talked a lot about squirrels. How they gather nuts, where they live, and what they eat.

Art

Painting with our hands with Fall colors.

We also made our own squirrels. They colored the squirrel template and then cut & glued on pieces of grey yarn for the fur.

Afterwards I told them they were going to pretend to be squirrels and I was going to hide, ok scatter nuts around the room and they had to hurry and gather them and bring back to the nest (the bowl). They were quick at this!

Afterwards we observed all the different nuts - shapes, size, texture. We sorted them out and in doing so Megan found an almond that was easy to open. Out popped a yucky looking old nut. She wanted to eat it but I told her no. So we went downstairs and tried some fresh almonds I had in the fridge.

Afterwards we enjoyed some playtime outside!

Snack

Fish crackers & cheese

Preschool 10/4

Theme: Fall Is Here!

Letter of the week: C

Number: 4

Color of the month: Orange

Shape of the month: Triangle

Circle Time

Introduced theme of the week and talked about leaves changing colors, falling from the trees, jumping in piles of leaves, what animals start gathering food for the winter, etc.

We sang a song about leaves falling down and we also sang Eensy Weensy Spider & Where is Thumbkin? per Tatum's request.

Centers

This week enjoyed the Concentration game. I know it's pretty advanced for them but they worked hard at getting the right shapes in and then we'd start the timer and wait for them all to pop up.

Dancing to music!

We did some beading, patterns & sorting.

We played a game where 1 person sat in a circle on the floor (I made it with a jump rope). We all counted to 4 and and threw the leaves in the air. The person in the circle had to count how many landed in the circle with them.

They each enjoyed having a turn!

Silly faces!

Snack

Crackers & peanut butter

Art

We did our letter of the week - C is for caterpillar. They glued pom-poms onto the letter C to make a caterpillar and then added some googly eyes. I guess I didn't get a picture of them; some art projects need a lot of guidance and I don't always have the time to snap a picture! This one required lots of gluing so I'm guessing I was busy with overseeing the use of too much glue. ;)

We also did some dot a dot with the letter C & caterpillars. And then we did some practice cutting. Lola loves to cut so she was pretty happy.

Left to Right: Megan, Tatum, Lola, Isaiah