Fall
In circle time this week
We started to chart our favorite activities at school
Did a fall color sort
Read our weekly poem and took turns coming up to front to “blow” the leaves off the tree
Our poem this week reinforced number and sequencing
What We Read This Week
Who Loves The Fall? By: Bob Raczka Tap The Magic Tree By: Christi Matheson
Who Had Jobs This Week?
Line Leaders: Emmett and Christo
Plant Helpers: Christo
In Art We Made
Self Portraits
I try to do several throughout the year; it is fun to see the evolution from start to the end.
They are given a mirror, a template face, and colored markers. In order to translate the image in the mirror to the page they are several basic things they need to identify. What is my eye color? What is my hair color? What marker matches?
In conjunction to identifying colors, they are also working on spatial relationships; ‘Where are my eyes on my face?’ ‘Where are my lips in relationship to my eyes or nose?’
Raking Leaves
The kids practiced tearing paper into small bits. Tearing is a great skill to practice. It requires holding a piece of paper in one hand while the other pinches and turns the wrist to tear down.
They also worked on cutting to make the bottom of the rake. Once they ripped and cut, the kids glued down all the pieces.
Wind Socket
The kids used leaf shaped stamps and stamped leaves all over a brown piece of paper. Once that had dried, the kids were asked to squeeze out a ‘chocolate chip’ size dot of glue and add streamers. They used a hole punch to make two holes at the top. The teachers taped it together and added a handle.
For Free art, the kids painted with yellow and then red paint at the easel. Once they had yellow and red down, they use a fresh brush to mix the two colors together seeing the colors mix to make orange!
Sensory Fun
Other Fun Happenings
We still have lots of fun on raining days!
Mrs. Levine invited us to her classroom to read a poem about leaves. By the end of the poem, there were leaves everywhere!
Then we played a fun game; A little mouse hid behind a house. The teachers took turns guessing the color house. That silly mouse
Action Cam
Conversation Topics:
What was the fresh fruit this week? Bananas
What did Mrs. Levine drop on the teacher’s heads while reading her poem? Leaves
What does P means in music? Piano=soft What does F mean in music class? Forte=Loud
How many leaves were on the tree in our poem? 5