Playdough

Playing with playdough is a frequent request between breakfast and class time.  There's just something about it that they love. 

Chef Hats

This past week, we talked about community helpers and made these fun chef hats.

Melted Crayon Leaves, Fall Trees, and Outside Math

Using a grater that you have to turn, we grated some yellow, orange, and red crayons.  This was hard work and they had to work together to get it to turn. 

We turned these pieces into the beautiful melted crayon leaves you can see in the hallway around our classroom door. 

 We painted fall trees.

 They loved playing with chalk outside during recess.

 Instead of taking our math lesson inside, we had our math time outside in the beautiful weather.  There were circles on the ground with different numbers inside.  I'd call out a number and they would have to run around, find a circle with the correct number inside, and stand inside that circle.  This game was a big hit. 

Egg Passing, Math Cubes, Cutting, Tweezers, and Leaf Rubbings

While learning about the letter E, we played a game where we passed an egg around the circle in measuring cups.  We had to be very careful not to let it fall on the floor. I loved watching them use teamwork to keep the egg safe. 

 During our match time, each student has 5 colored cubes. I'd call out a number and they would have to show me that number cubes from their group. 

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 We practiced cutting on the lines.

We used tweezers to transfer a group of leaves from one basket to the other.  Wonderful practice for our fine motor skills.

 We did leaf rubbings as we talked about the different fall leaves. 

Apples, Up, Underwater, Reading Buddies, Fall Trees, Shaving Cream Leaves

Apple handprints to go along with the apple poem we learned.



We played a balloon game as we learned about the letter U.  We had to keep the balloon UP at all times. Quite fun. 

 Along with our letter U study, we also put on music and pretended to swim Underwater.

I love it when they choose to read to each other during center time.

Making leaves on our fall trees.

We made shaving cream leaves.  We made a layer of shaving cream in a container, added some drops of food coloring, mixed the colors up a bit, and then placed a piece of paper on top. 

 This is what our papers looked like when we finished.  We then took these papers and cut leaves out of them.  You can see these leaves on the door to our classroom.