Week 3: Fall, Thanksgiving, Animals

The kids played with cloud dough and we made popcorn as a class.  With the warm weather, we've been spending more time inside with the toys and each other.  I loved the cloud dough, and that will be a repeat for December for sure.

Week 2: Fall, Thanksgiving, Animals

I really loved the activities this week.  They were so "fallish" and very appropriate for the season.  The leaf painting and collage both turned out so beautiful.  On Tuesday we made "nature soup" and looked to see what objects floated and what objects sank.  (Only the rocks sank.)  The kids loved collecting things and putting them in the water table.  Then we did a painting craft with watercolors and drawing leaves.  The trees looked very lovely and artsy.

On Thursday we collected the prettiest leaves we could find to make a leaf collage. I thought the leaf collage was so beautiful with real leaves.  We also introduced a new learning center with blocks and pictures of different structures to build.

Week 1: Fall, Thanksgiving, and Animals

This week we talked a little bit about animals, animal sounds, and read an animal book.  We made animal puppets on both days.  One was a tiger, and the other one was a frog.  I like to do our painting craft at the beginning of the month.  For our learning centers, the kids the imaginative play with play dough.  We repeated the build-a-pumpkin learning center, and then I introduced an ice cream play dough center.  I explained the rules about no eating the play dough, sharing, being careful to not drop play dough on the floor, and asking for help when they needed it.  They did marvelously with this group learning center, pretending to play with ice cream.

Next week we're going to explore nature and the fall leaves.