Happy Halloween!

We wrapped up this week with Pumpkin Day!  We read the story "Go Away Big Green Monster" by Ed Emberley and created our own Big Orange Monster!  We had a pumpkin painted on our hand or face! We used beads to make a pumpkin decoration and we played in pumpkin slime!  It was a fun day!  Here is a peek at some of our activities!

Look what we have been up too!

Our sensory table is full of October themed items!

We worked on some fine motor skills by hammering tees into a pumpkin!

We used tweezers and searched for hidden spiders!

 And we conducted our own experiment to determine what fall items sink or float!  Did you know that if an acorn has a "hat" it will float, but it will sink if it doesn't have a "hat"?  

A is for Apple Tree!

Don't Forget!

Ice Cream Social

Wednesday September 28th!

Check out our bulletin boards!

Golf ball painting apple shapes by the 3 year old class!

Apple name puzzles by the 4 year old class!  The children cut their apples on the lines and then had to put the apple together again to make their name!  They all did a great job!

Our Friendship Tree!  

The 3 year olds painted the tree while the 4 year olds made the apples!  Great team work!

We had a wonderful time celebrating Dot Day!
First, we heard the story

                                        

"The Dot" By Peter H. Reynolds

This is a story about a little girl who does not feel she is an artist.  With some encouragement from her art teacher to "Just make a mark and see where it takes you."  Vashti makes a dot on her paper and that dot takes her on a journey of discovering the unmasked creativity in herself!  I love this story!  It is so important to remember that we all have a creative spirit and sometimes we need just a little encouragement to set it free!

Next we made Dots, of course!

The 4 year old's also matched lettered dots on their apple tree!  Some children matched uppercase to uppercase while others matched uppercase to lowercase letters!  I guess our apple trees are now dot trees!

We would like to introduce you to :

Mat Man

You might be wondering, "What is Mat Man?"  Mat Man is a character that is introduced through the Handwriting Without Tears program.  Through this character we work on important skills such as:

• body awareness
• drawing & prewriting
• counting
• building
• socializing & sharing

The children love to work together to build Mat Man, although many refer to him as Bat Man!