October Doings

The blog feels like "a day in the life of the classroom" this time...... as we watched the goings on and recorded them on film. The hollow blocks continue to get a lot of attention, both as a work place and a gathering place for many different types of play!

We've made applesauce and written a an informative book about how we made it, pictures included! The children continue to explore group play in the large block corner, and glue and paint and print with all sorts of fall colors. As we've discussed Fire Safety, the children have sung songs about brave firefighters, "Stop, Drop, and Roll" and have explored a smoke detector.

We have begun a worm composting program, and the children were introduced to the worms. We'll be chopping up a few of the vegetable/fruit scraps that we compost and feeding the worms each week, and they will make dirt for us!

Thanks to your generosity, we've made shakers with our egg cartons and we have a "shaker song" that we shared together.

Also thanks to your generous "guest reader" times. The children enjoy the different literature that comes in from your homes, and your help is greatly appreciated!

Until Next Time,
Michele




"I'll be the kid"
"gluing together"

colorful leaves that we've gathered
"hello worms"
where the wild things are!
mmm yummy applesauce

turn the crank to make the applesauce!

pre-k mathematicians


chop the apples!
you put the beans in the carton and shake it all up!
a book about school picture day!
the colors of autumn


My shaker!

fall colors and glue. Perfect.

A Colorful Fall Week!

This week was a week of Firsts for the PreK 4's. We began writing and coloring in our journals and they have already become a valued choice during the morning and after lunch. The four year olds are beginning to work to be in the "group", and often when a gang is building there will be workers, observers, suppliers, idea people, and somehow it all comes together and everyone fits.
They've built a structure together with the hollow blocks that everyone could fit on, and had a long discussion about what it was. There were many choruses of "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,blast off!" which seemed to indicate space travel.
We cooked, printed with, and polished apples. Our songs were about farms and harvesting and our favorites, apples and pumpkins.

Buddies

We've met our buddies, and have already written a book together, THE BUDDY BUDDY BOOK!