Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!
We have so much to be thankful for.
We started our week by learning what it means to be thankful, listened to songs about being thankful and brainstorming, throughout the week, what we were thankful for. We thought about some truly important things that we have to be thankful for such as love, family and friends, our homes and the food we eat. The kids did a great job coming up with many more ideas as well.
The kids worked on their number recognition and counting through our thanksgiving number puzzles and our Fall counting representation cards.
We started our work on patterns this week, using our little wooden Fall pieces. The newbies did an awesome job learning from the big kids and the big kids did a great job telling and showing me the different types of patterns, they could think of.
The kids did a little bit of pumpkin/cornstarch/water science this week too. The started by mixing water into pumpkin puree and then adding corn starch. This allowed us to talk about thin/thinner vs thick/thicker. It also ended up providing them with a taste test (definitely their idea, okayed by me) and the discovery of suction (while playing in their science-y mess they had a hard time picking up their upside-down cups). This fun lasted for more than an hour and resulted in many prune-y fingers!
We started our focused letter learning this week, starting with the letters L and F. The kids collected leaves to build L and they traced leaf shapes and write the letter L within them. For letter F, the kids used leaf confetti to build it and used a bingo dabber to dab the circles on top of F. And of course, letter learning would not be letter learning without some letter songs to go along with them. We had a lot of fun using the letter L sound to sing scales, up and down. The amount of laughter that came from that was awesome!
We also had a bit of Fall fun eating homemade crab-apple jelly on pancakes and going on a Fall scavenger hunt.
The kids also worked on their fine motor skills by threading yearn through holes in laminated leaves, and painted Thanksgiving turkeys.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!
We have so much to be thankful for.
We started our week by learning what it means to be thankful, listened to songs about being thankful and brainstorming, throughout the week, what we were thankful for. We thought about some truly important things that we have to be thankful for such as love, family and friends, our homes and the food we eat. The kids did a great job coming up with many more ideas as well.
The kids worked on their number recognition and counting through our thanksgiving number puzzles and our Fall counting representation cards.
We started our work on patterns this week, using our little wooden Fall pieces. The newbies did an awesome job learning from the big kids and the big kids did a great job telling and showing me the different types of patterns, they could think of.
The kids did a little bit of pumpkin/cornstarch/water science this week too. The started by mixing water into pumpkin puree and then adding corn starch. This allowed us to talk about thin/thinner vs thick/thicker. It also ended up providing them with a taste test (definitely their idea, okayed by me) and the discovery of suction (while playing in their science-y mess they had a hard time picking up their upside-down cups). This fun lasted for more than an hour and resulted in many prune-y fingers!
We started our focused letter learning this week, starting with the letters L and F. The kids collected leaves to build L and they traced leaf shapes and write the letter L within them. For letter F, the kids used leaf confetti to build it and used a bingo dabber to dab the circles on top of F. And of course, letter learning would not be letter learning without some letter songs to go along with them. We had a lot of fun using the letter L sound to sing scales, up and down. The amount of laughter that came from that was awesome!
We also had a bit of Fall fun eating homemade crab-apple jelly on pancakes and going on a Fall scavenger hunt.
The kids also worked on their fine motor skills by threading yearn through holes in laminated leaves, and painted Thanksgiving turkeys.
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