All about the Octopus train...

We have changed themes again! We are now on the move and talking about transportation. We will be learning about:
-color train (working on fine motor skills by cutting from new materials: magazines)
-6 nursery rhymes (row your boat, pat-a-cake, 1 2 buckle my shoe, itsy bitsy spider, humpty dumpty, and mary had a little lamb)
-3 more letters (H, T, K)
-traffic lights (sorry for all the back seat driving)
-spider non fiction study (we have learned 2 spider songs, an itsy bitsy spider game, and created webs already)
-sorting by size
-number guessing game (items hidden under number clouds to work on numeral recognition)
-Reading 2 stories by Mo Willems: Dont let the Pigeon drive the Bus, and Lets go for a Drive
-reading environmental print (for places to travel)

pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin

To end our theme of fall, farm, and fire safety we had to carve a pumpkin! We had been learning about the parts of the pumpkin in our science center (pulp, seeds, stem, and ribs), playing with pumpkins in dramatic play, and creating art projects about pumpkins.
We removed the pulp and seeds (some of their faces were so funny), then voted as a class what eyes, nose, and mouth our pumpkin would have. It was such a fun day!

Fire Safety week

We are learning all about fire safety this week:
-what number to call when there is a fire
-when you can call a fire fighter
-what to do when there is a fire
-stop drop and roll

We have been dressing up as fire fighters in dramatic play, spraying a burning building to keep our classroom safe. During academic choice this week, we will rip and tear paper to fill the number 911, color a fire fighter picture, and make a fire truck you can eat!

Apples, apples up on top!

This week our focus has been on many things, one in particular was apples! We ended the week by getting to taste 3 kinds of apples: red, green, and yellow.
The children rated the apples with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and gave descriptions like juicy, sweet, and sour. We wanted to remember our favorite color apple, so we glued that into our journals, then graphed our favorite apple as a class!

Farm fun