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!

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!