October 12th, 2018
It was all about scarecrows this week. What they are, what they are made of, where they are, and why they are there. We learned that because scarecrows resemble humans, they are great for scaring off animals so they do not eat the farmer’s crops. We brainstormed the types of food that grow on a farm that other animals and birds would like to eat. The list was big; corn, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins, etc.
Corn was one of the vegetables that the kids said grows on a farm, so we practiced our counting, and addition for the older ones, by gluing on the correct numbers of pom poms to paper corns. Zucchini was another vegetable that was though of so we baked zucchini chocolate chip muffins for snack. Mmm.
We had lots of fun building a life-size kid scarecrow out of a variety of shapes, where we talked about the names of the shapes and counted the sides of each, as well as used our memory of Mat Man and his song to put all the scarecrows body parts in the correct places.
Our letters this week were Q and G. We practiced forming the letters using our letter construction kit and play dough, we practiced saying the sounds they make and listened for words they start with (some were able to come up with their own words too!).
Some of the books we read this week were
-There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves by Lucille Colandro
-There was an old lady who swallowed a turkey by Lucille Colandro
-The lady with the alligator purse by Nadine Bernard Westcott. I believe we read this one 3 times consecutively. You can sing it to the popular swimming lesson song “Tiny Tim”.
-Pete the Cat: I love my white shoes by James Dean and Eric Litwin. This story is definitely a favourite of the group!
-Ten Apples Up On Top” by Dr. Seuss
This week’s movement song was quite popular! “Scarecrow Song” by The Learning Station
It was all about scarecrows this week. What they are, what they are made of, where they are, and why they are there. We learned that because scarecrows resemble humans, they are great for scaring off animals so they do not eat the farmer’s crops. We brainstormed the types of food that grow on a farm that other animals and birds would like to eat. The list was big; corn, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins, etc.
Corn was one of the vegetables that the kids said grows on a farm, so we practiced our counting, and addition for the older ones, by gluing on the correct numbers of pom poms to paper corns. Zucchini was another vegetable that was though of so we baked zucchini chocolate chip muffins for snack. Mmm.
We had lots of fun building a life-size kid scarecrow out of a variety of shapes, where we talked about the names of the shapes and counted the sides of each, as well as used our memory of Mat Man and his song to put all the scarecrows body parts in the correct places.
Our letters this week were Q and G. We practiced forming the letters using our letter construction kit and play dough, we practiced saying the sounds they make and listened for words they start with (some were able to come up with their own words too!).
Some of the books we read this week were
-There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves by Lucille Colandro
-There was an old lady who swallowed a turkey by Lucille Colandro
-The lady with the alligator purse by Nadine Bernard Westcott. I believe we read this one 3 times consecutively. You can sing it to the popular swimming lesson song “Tiny Tim”.
-Pete the Cat: I love my white shoes by James Dean and Eric Litwin. This story is definitely a favourite of the group!
-Ten Apples Up On Top” by Dr. Seuss
This week’s movement song was quite popular! “Scarecrow Song” by The Learning Station
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