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!

Fall Harvest

Harvest Time is upon us so we focused on fruits, vegetables and the concept of harvesting this week! Check out what I was able to capture this past week.

We have been working on gaining a greater understanding of shapes and manipulations of objects so we used small square crackers to create different shapes and objects. Check out the different squares, snakes, towers and other creative objects!

For art we created corn on the cob! We painted bubble wrap and pressed a piece of paper onto the painted wrap, making a print of the bubbles. They look just like corn kernels!

Check out these little farmers!! Here my little munchkins scooped hay, apples and corn to feed some animals with this fun fine motor activity!

We have been working a lot on our tracing working our hand-eye coordination, self-control and pincer grip. Check out these master tracers!

On Tuesday we focused on determining the differences in fruits and vegetables. We worked on classifying the two groups and took turns announcing what we had and what type of food it was!!

Before enjoying a small snack we used our pretzel sticks to create different objects. Look at our letters and long snakes. We were so proud of what we built!!

For art we used real fruit and vegetables to make food prints!!

On Wednesday we took a break from the Kids Kitchen and played inside!! We developed our coordination and gross motor skills and had tons of fun!

We made harvest crowns to celebrate Harvest!!

Patterning is something we have been working on, challenging ourselves with different levels of patterns, ABA, ABBA, AABBAA, etc. Check out these Harvest themed patterns!

On Thursday we used shapes to create different vegetables and made Shape Gardens!

We have been reading some Halloween books, including “The Old Lady That Wasn’t Afraid of Anything.” I asked the students what they thought the old lady saw when she opened her door and this is what some of them said…

d is for dot art!! We had fun creating art in our Kids Kitchen!

We have begun to explore fun rhyming words. We explored some rhyming words after reading a small amount of “Green Eggs and Ham!”

Share time went great this week!! I wish I could capture each and every child, but here is a small snippet of our Share this week!

D is for Dog!! Check out the dogs we made out of the letter D!

Friday was the very first day we worked with scissors!! Although this is both a scary and exciting thought, we will be beginning with scissors that don’t cut hair or, well anything but paper. We will slowly move to sharper scissors as it becomes more and more appropriate. We actually have three different levels of scissors in total!!

 

Check out these little Harvest Kings and Queens!!

We had a blast this past week and are truly enjoying this California Fall Season!