We officially switched themes for the first time this year. We started with a shared writing experience (that’s my goal for each theme change to continue to work on writing/invented spelling). We made a list of farm and fall animals/things. The children were involved in the change to help select materials they wanted for the room. This creates a sense of investment in the environment. We will be tasting apples, painting and carving pumpkins, and measuring how tall we are with leaves.
When it’s getting too hot outside and we have to stay inside, it’s time to bring out the shaving cream!
Sometimes math is yummy. We sorted by color with our brown bear characters. To extend we talked about our which one has the most, the least, none, and counted how many as we got to eat and enjoy!
Each theme brings a variety of different path games that will always be on the tables and providing the students opportunities for turn taking, matching, path games that will need rote counting, numeral identification, and subitizing. Today we explored the variety of octopus theme games for diving into preschool!
