October 30th, 2015
Halloween is here! What’s more fun than dressing up in costumes and celebrating with your friends?! We had a fireman, a ballerina, Elsa and Anna. We had a Halloween dance party, baked cupcakes and climbed through a human spider web.
Following the Halloween theme this week, we created many crafts that tested our fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and counting. We made Jack O Lantern faces using shapes we are learning about and then we punched holes in the tops of them and threaded yarn through them to create garland. We counted how many legs a spider has and then chose the corresponding number of pipe cleaners to poke through and egg carton. We practiced our cutting skills making bat wings for our toilet paper tube bat.
Who knew that you could paint with something other than a paint brush…toothbrushes and Q-Tips are great for painting as well. We painted on a squashes 3D surface which it quite different than painting on paper. It is always fun to learn to use new tools when performing a familiar task. Keeps our minds working!
Cleaning out the pumpkins this week was a fun and dirty job. Some jumped right into the gooey mess and some preferred to watch. No matter how much our hands were involved, we still learned so much about our 5 senses. There were mixed reviews about the smell of the pumpkins.
“Ewww it smells like mud” and “Mmm candy”.
Some of us wanted to taste the pumpkin and were not very pleased that it didn’t taste like the candy they smelled. Their faces were priceless. We even listened to the sound a pumpkin has when someone is scrapping out the seeds and pulp. It was quite fascinating.
After the pumpkin scooping we washed and counted the pumpkin seeds. We first estimated which pumpkin we thought would have more seeds inside; one pumpkin was bigger than the other so that one must have more right? We then wanted to see how many lines of pumpkin seeds we could make, 15!
Tiny Halloween creatures were quite the hit this week. We used tiny spiders and googly eyes to count, write our names and of course play with!
We continued using our pumpkin song to identify emotions and practice counting. This week we used our emotion pumpkins to add. We also learned a new movement song called “Dem Bones”. It is a skeleton song that helps us to identify parts of our bodies, as well as our left from right. Super fun!
Happy Halloween!
Xoxo Miss Audra
Halloween is here! What’s more fun than dressing up in costumes and celebrating with your friends?! We had a fireman, a ballerina, Elsa and Anna. We had a Halloween dance party, baked cupcakes and climbed through a human spider web.
Following the Halloween theme this week, we created many crafts that tested our fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and counting. We made Jack O Lantern faces using shapes we are learning about and then we punched holes in the tops of them and threaded yarn through them to create garland. We counted how many legs a spider has and then chose the corresponding number of pipe cleaners to poke through and egg carton. We practiced our cutting skills making bat wings for our toilet paper tube bat.
Who knew that you could paint with something other than a paint brush…toothbrushes and Q-Tips are great for painting as well. We painted on a squashes 3D surface which it quite different than painting on paper. It is always fun to learn to use new tools when performing a familiar task. Keeps our minds working!
Cleaning out the pumpkins this week was a fun and dirty job. Some jumped right into the gooey mess and some preferred to watch. No matter how much our hands were involved, we still learned so much about our 5 senses. There were mixed reviews about the smell of the pumpkins.
“Ewww it smells like mud” and “Mmm candy”.
Some of us wanted to taste the pumpkin and were not very pleased that it didn’t taste like the candy they smelled. Their faces were priceless. We even listened to the sound a pumpkin has when someone is scrapping out the seeds and pulp. It was quite fascinating.
After the pumpkin scooping we washed and counted the pumpkin seeds. We first estimated which pumpkin we thought would have more seeds inside; one pumpkin was bigger than the other so that one must have more right? We then wanted to see how many lines of pumpkin seeds we could make, 15!
Tiny Halloween creatures were quite the hit this week. We used tiny spiders and googly eyes to count, write our names and of course play with!
We continued using our pumpkin song to identify emotions and practice counting. This week we used our emotion pumpkins to add. We also learned a new movement song called “Dem Bones”. It is a skeleton song that helps us to identify parts of our bodies, as well as our left from right. Super fun!
Happy Halloween!
Xoxo Miss Audra
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