Squirrels and Acorns are a Fall Must!!

Brown Squirrel, Brown Squirrel, Shake Your Bushy Tail!!

We were talking all about Squirrels and Acorns this week!! We explored acorns and found out a lot about them! We learned where they grow, what they look like and what squirrels do with them! Here were are looking at them in our Kids Kitchen.

We have also been celebrating the letter C this week, so we had a “C” Snack of dried cranberries and crackers!!

For art, we used acorns as a paintbrush and painted, well… acorns!!

On Tuesday in Kids Kitchen we learned a song and dance about a Brown Squirrel. Check out our skills as we stick a nut between our toes, wrinkle up our little nose and shake our bushy tails!!

We celebrated all of our letters we have studied thus far by having an “ABC” snack!! A is for apples, B is for yogurt pretzel butterflies and C is for cranberries!!

We explored our sensory skills with our art project today, pulling apart cotton balls and adding fluffy “bushy” tails to our squirrels. We painted them with glittery watercolor paint and created a squirrel masterpiece!

We have been working hard to expand our understanding of more complex patterns such as ABBA and AABA patterns. We explored them today, while reviewing our shapes!!

In the afternoon we exercised our self-control and hand-eye coordination, as well as our letter recognition skills by dotting all upper and lowercase “Cc’s.”

On Wednesday we sorted the different types of acorns we had in Kids Kitchen. We each got a few turns to sort the acorns in to three different categories!! Afterwards we counted each group and talked about which group had the most and the least!!

For art we created our own patterns with colored acorns!! My munchkins created acorn patterns that had all sorts of patterns such as ABCABC, ABBA, ABA, etc. I was proud of their creativity and loved that everyone’s pattern was so different!

We made Fall Colored Sensory Bags for art on Thursday!! I had them open their own bags, working their fine motor strength and determination!

I saw my munchkins squish, squeeze and even trace letters into the sensory bags!! They LOVE it!!

C is for crab!!

We celebrated our week’s end with a chocolate acron!! I had my munchkins open one chocolate kiss, working their fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills, and add it to a circular cookie, creating a chocolate acorn!! Yummo!

We made delicious cookies for art!! C is for cookies!!!

The Fall Leaves are Changing!!

The Leaves are Falling Down, The Leaves are Falling Down, Red, Yellow, Green and Brown, The Leaves are Falling Down!”

We welcomed Fall to our class with a focus on the change of the season!! We were busy bodies this week but managed to capture a few things that we did each day! Check out a little bit about what we did this past week.

We were really lucky to have one of our awesome classmates gather Fall leaves for our class and got to look through the different leaves in our Kids Kitchen. We explored the leaves, noticed their color and shapes and talked about why they weren’t green.

We made a Fall leaf collage for art, exploring more Fall leaves and using our fine motor control to squeeze the glue all on our own.

We love to look through storybooks and are exploring the idea that the print in the book carries meaning. We are beginning to discover that words are read from left to right too!

We have been talking a lot about the uppercase alphabet lately and attempted to put our letters in order from A to Z with these cool linking crabs! This was a great game that worked our letter recognition and fine motor skills!

We decorated our door with fall colored sparkly leaves!! We decorated sticky contact paper and enjoyed decorating our classroom as much as we enjoyed the stickiness of the contact paper.

We have been practicing our self-control a lot in our class!! Here, we used our dot art dotters to create an uppercase letter B!! We chose blue or brown, a color beginning with “B” and also worked our hand-eye coordination, while practicing with our letter of the week! Twisting on and off the caps of the dotters is also something we  worked hard on!!

B is for bumble bee!! Thank you to one of our wonderful father’s for this idea!! We made a bumble bee out of the uppercase letter B!!

Look how wonderful we are sitting for Circle Time!! Our self-control is improving more and more each day and this week we were top-notch!!

“The Leaves are Falling Down…” we love this song and danced while singing it each day to remind us what happens to the trees during the Fall season.

“b” is for beans!!! We had tons of fun adding beans to a lowercase letter b!! Some of us used a variety of colors, some decorated in one color and others decorated by the hand-full!!

We have been in to 8-10 piece puzzles lately!! Although they are difficult, we have been challenging ourselves and I couldn’t be more thrilled with what my munchkins can do when they put their minds to it!!

I hope you enjoyed the snapshot of our week. I will be a much more thorough photographer this coming week for “Squirrels and Acorns Week!”