Activities for Friday, October 8, 2010

Yea! We loved the beautiful day we had to enjoy again outside!

Willow Room- MWF class

We had the children guess how many seeds would be in the red, yellow and green apples. We read the story "10 apples up on top" by Theo Leseig Some of the children brought leaves that were changing colors in to show us.

We used corks to make prints that looked like apples on tree shape paper. We had paint brushes at the easels.

We sang "Way up high in the apple tree" and "Face the facts"

We added some scissors to our paper cutting int he sensory table. We have new orange playdough. While we were outside some of the children played ring around the rosie.

Maple Room:

we read "The biggest pumpkin ever" n=by Elizabeth Bennett

We made paper bag pumpkins- we stuffed lunch bags with paper, painted them and put on faces.

We sang The October song, played a musical "buy the apple game" and sang a funny fall song.

We practiced writing our letters we have studied- on dry erase boards- "A and B"

Oak Room:

We read "Rain" by Manya Stojic. A story about sing all 5 senses in the rain.

For art, the children painted a picture, then sprayed the picture with a spritzer bottle filled with water so see what the rain would do to our picture.

we had out some shape sorting puzzles, sound puzzles, and we played a game sorting pictures according to the 5 senses.

We did the list of dances song for music. We practiced writing the letter D

Activities for Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010

What a beautiful day! We enjoyed our outside time in our playground again today.

Willow Room: Terrific 2's and 3's class

We read "Apple Farmer Annie" by Monica Wellington

We crunched up tissue paper and glued it onto apple shapes. We will use them to decorate our room. We had magnetic alphabet letters at the easel.

We sang "The fish song" and "Put your finger on"

We baked apple tarts today, we pressed dough into a muffin shape and added apple pie filling with cinnamon. We enjoyed them at snack time today. YUM!

Oak Room:

We are finishing up our unit on senses, and today we talked about our skin and sense of touch. We read "The skin you live in" by Michael Tyler

We also made a list of words that start with the letter "D"

We guessed the objects in a mystery box by feeling them, we had sound puzles, and a birthday cake puzzle out today. We sang a senses song, and "Toe, leg, knee"

For art today, we painted glue inside a stencil shape. Then we sprinkled the glue with colored sand to create a picture with texture.

Activities for Wednesday, October 6, 2010

We had a beautiful warm day to enjoy the outside playground again today.

Willow Room- MWF class

We read a story called "Apple Farmer Annie" by Monica Wellington. We asked the children if they like to bake? One of the children brought a mini pumpkin to show the class and another brought some leaves.

We baked apple tarts, we pressed some dough into muffin tins and added some apple pie filling and cinnamon sugar.
We glued tissue paper all crunched up on apple shapes to hang in our room. We had magnetic letters at the easel.

"List of dances", and "the fish song" was our music today.

Maple Room: MWF class

We read a story called "Applesauce Season" by Eden Ross Lipson

We cut and peeled apples today and made home made applesauce. We did dab a doo stampers at the easel.

We sang October song, A-P-P-L-E, and Way up high in the apple tree.

We did letter "D" activities today too.


Oak Room:

We were talking about our sense of touch. We read Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb

we worked on letter "D" pictures in our journal, and we did a graph about whether they had a letter "D" in their name.

We had out some texture puzzles, and touch and feel books.

We had a mixture of cornstarch and water and played with the unusual texture of this combination.

Activities for Tuesday, October 5, 2010

All classes went outside today to enjoy the beautiful fall weather.

Willow Room: T/TH class

We told the story of "A little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside" which ends up being a story about an apple. When you cut an apple crosswise you will find a star inside. we used the cut apples to make a print. The star shows up on the paper.

We had markers at the easels.

We sang "sticky bubble gum" and "Tap your toe and follow me"

We filled our sensory table with colorful paper and we got to tear it up into little pieces. Tearing is a great fine motor skill and is a pre-cutting skill too.


Oak Room:

We read "Ten apples up on Top" by Theo LeSieg

We drew a picture of ourselves on the bottom of paper and then we used an apple shape stamper to stamp some apples on top of our heads like the story.

We played a game about how many apples up on top; we had a picture of a boy and a girl and the children rolled a dice and added that number of apples to the top of the heads.

we sang "Where is the worm hiding?" "Deep in the jungle" (with drums for a beat), "come and pick an apple"

We are talking about the five senses and the letter "D".

Activities for Monday, October 4, 2010

We were able to go outside to enjoy another beautiful fall day. It was crisp and cool, but sunny and bright.

Willow Room- MWF class

We are talking about apples in our class. We told a story about The little red house with no doors and no windows but it has a star inside. The story is about an apple! If you cut an apple crosswise, you will find the seed pockets inside form a star. We then used the cut apples to paint with today. The star shape shows up in the pictures.

We asked the children if they haad ever seen a house that had no windows and no doors!

We also had some fun snipping paper and gluing it at the free art table.

We sang "Sticky, bubble gum", and "Tap your toe and follow me" for music today.


Maple Room:

We are talking about apples this week, and we read a story called " Little Mouse and the Big Red Apple by A.H. Benjamin and Gwyneth Williamson

We did tearing paper and gluing it onto an apple shape. We had glitter water colors at the easel.

We added some corn to our sensory table with scoops and cups.

We are learning about the letter "B". We do puzzles, stories, songs and other activities each week to study the letter.

We sang "the alphabet letter sounds song", "Today is Monday" and we sang our "October song".

Oak Room

We also did the "The apple story about a house with no doors or windows and a star inside" today.

We made applesauce, the children brought apples today and we peeled them, cut them, and cooked them to make delicious applesauce to eat with our snack. We also did a taste test of apples to see which one the children liked best. We compared the apples everyone brought in and saw that some are red, green, yellow, bigger, smaller, shaped in various ways too.

We sang "A-P-P-L-E" (like BINGO, but with the apple word), and "Way up high in the apple tree" .

We are talking about the letter "D" this week.

Activities for Friday, Oct. 2, 2010

All classes went outside Friday.

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "A color of his own" by Leo Lionni and our question today was "What is your favorite color?"
One of the children brought a big leaf in to show the class.

We did a group art project using do-a dot stamp painters - we used the stampers to fill in the circles we painted last week.

We had apple shape stencils and rollers at the easels.


We sang "couch potato pokey" "sticky bubble gum" and "Tommy Thumb".

We saw 25 geese when we were outside on the playground.

Maple Room:

We read "The apple pie tree" by Zoe Hall

We made apple trees today. We used tree shapes and stamped "apples" using corks. We used apple shapes with letter "A" stampers.

We sang "The October song", "Months of the year", and "Way up high in the apple tree"

We practiced writing the letter "A" today.

Oak room:

We read The "Noisy way to Bed"

We are talking about our sense of hearing and we decorated paper plates , stapled them together, with beans inside to make shakers. We used them later int eh morning for our music time. We danced and moved to the music with our shakers.


We also did a musical ABC matching game using upper and lower case letters. The child matched the upper and lower case letter, then rang a bell when they were done.

We did a guessing game with sounds on a tape. We practiced writing the letter "C" on dry erase boards.

Activities for Thursday, September 30, 2010

All classes went outside today to play on the playground.

Willow Room:

We read "Here are my hands" by Bill Martin

We painted with textured mittens. The mittens have different textures on the palms, the children wore them and painted. We used primary paint colors.

We had painting at the easels too, we used empty thread spools on rollers.

We sang "2 little black birds" and we did the "Hokey Pokey dance"

We had many children enjoying the free art table, we had a lot of creative gluing going on.


Oak Room:

We read "Little Blue and Little Yellow", a cute story by Leo Lionni anout how blue and yellow make green.

We are talking about senses and we use our sense of sight to see colors.

We cut out a circle shape and painted with yellow and blue paint to create green.

We had a light table out today with colored transparencies so we could use two colors to create a third.

We experimented with color mixing, we used liquid colors and took two to make a third; each child got to try it for themselves.

We did a Carl the clown color rhyme at music.

We are talking about the letter "C"; and we sing songs about it and read a book about the letter "C". We also put out some letter alphabet puzzles.