Cute Lil' Pumpkins in a Pumpkin Patch

My ‘Cute Little Pumpkins’ were learning all about Pumpkins this week!!

We took a look at a real pumpkin on Monday morning and talked about what it felt like and what it looked like.

My munchkins have been working hard on their patterning skills! Here they worked on patterning short and tall pumpkins!

We love to look through library books and have been noticing more and more about the concepts about print. Check out how one of my munchkins noticed the letters in the title of this pumpkin book!

We love to look through our Fall Sensory Tub!! We have been learning about different harvest themed items.

My munchkins learned that carved pumpkins are called ‘jack-o-lanterns’ and we explored how to create one with this sequencing activity.

We made some predictions about what we think will be inside of the pumpkin when we carve it.

Afterwards, we explored the inside of a pumpkin!!

For art we used paint rollers to spread paint over a pumpkin template.

In the afternoon we used our fine motor/pincer grip skills to rip paper and create faces on our pumpkins.

My munchkins touched the insides of the pumpkin today!! We described what we thought it felt like and came up with come great descriptive and comparative words!!

“f” is for rainbow FISH!!

We made yummy mini pumpkin pies!! They were delicious!

We love our pumpkin books!!

My munchkins decided what our jack-o-lantern should have and I carved accordingly J We love our jack-o-lantern!!

We have a pumpkin decorating party!! I can’t decide if I like the eye balls or the colors more…

Happy Birthday Jackson!! We had so much fun celebrating Jackson turning 3 on Friday!

 We had a lot of fun this week!

Scarecrows and Corn Fields

Happy Fall Y’all! We spent the week talking about Scarecrows and cornfields!

Check out what I was able to get pictures of!!

We began our week by exploring corn! We looked at it closely with magnifying glasses and used our fine motor skills to scoop and pour the kernels from one cup to the next.

We made corn music makers, or maracas! After decorating them with dotters we added kernels to the inside and added some fancy crepe paper.

In the afternoon we danced to the music we made!! What a blast!

We have been working hard on our newest favorite fine motor activity, cutting with scissors. Look at that form! Thumbs up everyone J

In our Kids Kitchen we explored foods that can be made from corn. We tried corn tortillas and added cheese to them, making yummy quesadilla snacks. Yummo!

We made scarecrow masks for art. This was a great opportunity to explore our creativity and review where body parts are placed.

Its share time for the letter E! Look at these cute little teachers-in-the-making!!

We baked the remainder of our tortillas and made healthy corn chips. This was a delicious little snack!!

For art we explored different things that begin with our letter of the week, the letter e. We decorated lowercase e’s like little chickens and will be adding a shell around the e to make an egg!

My munchkins explored Indian Corn and all of it’s glorious colors. We used our magnifying glasses to get a closer look at this interestingly colored corn.

Using corn husks to paint a crow template was a fun art activity and a great reminder that you can use anything to act as a paintbrush. Fostering creativity is so important! The possibilities are endless J

Opportunities in learning are everywhere! After coloring a scarecrow sheet one of my munchkins was hard at work sorting the crayons back in to their correct color holder. This was a great classification exercise and super helpful at clean up time.

Peek a boo! Who is that cute Scarecrow?

Here are some great moments I was able to capture of some of the great bonds of friendship that we are creating in our classroom!