Pumpkins

One of the crafts the kiddos made this week was a PUMPKIN!! We explored cutting, gluing and putting the materials on. Each craft was adapted to the child's skill level. We used popcorn kernels to get the orange color, black buttons for the eyes and green tape for the stem.

We did a super fun experiment in group time this week-  PUMPKIN VOLCANO!!!

First, we scooped the guts and seeds out.

Next, we poured in the baking soda.

Then, we added a few drops of food coloring.

Lastly, we poured in the vinegar!

A PUMPKIN EXPLOSION!!!

Leaf Man

 One of the books we read was Lois Ehlert's Leaf Man.

A couple of examples of our Leaf Man inspired art!!

 

Fall Walk in Fish Creek Park

This week we went on an outing to Fish Creek Park. The children enjoyed walking around the beautiful park and were able to see the colorful leaves falling off the trees.

If you look closely at the image above you can see the muskrats swimming in the pond!!!

A little hard to see but it's a muskrat!!

The children participated in doing a scavenger hunt.



Fall!!

Our theme for the month of October is "Fall" and we have lots of fun  activities set up in the classrooms. Here are some images of some of the exciting fall themed activities set up.

Build a Scarecrow

 

 

Ball Toss

 

 

 Apple Tree





 



Dress up and Build a Skeleton



 

Leaf and Pumpkin Centre

Apple Trees

 

We had some fun making apple tree crafts. The children cut out a green circle for tree leaves, stamped glue on and sprinkled sparkles for the apple. Then they put on a clothes pin for the tree trunk.

 

We read "Ten Little Apples"! The children worked on turning the pages of the book, counting, labeling, and answering a variety of what questions (e.g., what color?, what's that?, etc.). The children had fun turning the dial and watching the apples fall from the tree.

 

 

 

Tornado Experiment

We did a fun tornado experiment using a tornado tube, two pop bottles, water, food coloring and glitter. This month being purple month, we added red food coloring to one of the bottles half filled with water, blue food coloring to the other half filled bottle of water, some glitter, then connected the two bottles with a tornado tube and voilà a PURPLE tornado!!! 

 

 



 

The group of children were all mesmerized by the twirling tornado and some could hardly contain themselves with all the excitement. It was awesome!

Purple and Circles

Today we had fun during group time learning about the color purple and the shape of a circle.  The children participated in sitting for circle time and doing a craft.

The kiddos each picked a purple object out of the treasure box and held on to it for the duration of circle time.

 Having some fun feeding the purple dinosaur!!

 

We watched a "Storybots" video.

During craft we mixed purple paint, cut out circles and stamped purple circles  

 PURPLE CIRCLE ART!!!