Learning Station - Eyeball Color Sort

This was silly.  The kiddos caught eyes floating in water and then sorted them by their color.  Easy to sort, but tricky to catch.

The color eyes were from the dollar store.

Learning Station - Egg Carton E

This was a good activity to work a bit on engineering (another Ee!).  The kiddos had to figure out how to stick their egg carton E to their paper... 

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving week!

Corn Shakers - Great noise makers! Ha!  The kiddos and the shakers!  We drank our water with our feast.  Then we poured corn kernels into our bottles and taa daa!  Shakers!! 

 

It would have been fun to add beads and maybe small bells too.  I found this idea on this blog:  Here!

The Feast - Oh yum!  The kiddos each brought an item to share.

 
Planting Corn - We have been talking about the Pilgrims and the Native Americans who helped them.  We learned that Squanto taught the pilgrims to plant their corn with a dead fish to help it grow strong...  We did the same... 

 

Pumpkin Play Dough - We enjoyed playing with this fragrant dough for quite a bit of time.  Hope you enjoy it at home as well.  It's just canned pumpkin, cornstarch and seasonings.
I found the recipe on this blog:  Here!

Learning Station - Turkey Names

The kiddos put together a cute turkey and then wrote their name on it's feathers.  The younger kiddos put the feathers of their name in order, I had written their letters for them.

 

Jj Week and Fall

Welcome to our jumping Jj week!

Cards For Our Troops - A kiddo's older brother's school is collecting Holiday/Thank You cards for our troops serving overseas.  We made some today!

Jumping Jacks - The kiddos burned energy while loving on the letter Jj!

Baggie Jellyfish - We watched a few videos about jellyfish, then made our own.

The kiddos were bummed we didn't do pajama day during Pp week, so we did Jama day for Jj week...



Cereal - What goes better with pajamas then cereal!

The kiddos were listening to the Rice Krispies... 


Book - Journey - One of our favorite books is: 

We got chatting about how we could make the story different, so we decided to try making our own books...

Jumping Jingle Bell Necklaces - The kiddos loved a bit of jumping and jingling!  ...  Just a large jingle bell on a string.

Leaf Puppets - So cute!  All items from the Dollar Store.

 

Dice - These kiddos were loving rolling dice, so I pulled out all my dice for them to roll...

Learning Station - Jump!!!

The kiddos rolled a die, then jumped that many times.  They of course escalated to jumping off the table.  All in the name of education!

Learning Station - Jingle Bell Jj

The kiddos got a kick out of stringing jingle bells on a pipe cleaner, then shaping it into a Jj.  A few even sang "Jingle Bells".

 

Ww Week with Fall and Thanksgiving

Welcome to wonderful Ww week!

Ww Clothing - White - The kiddos showed up to class on Monday already wearing the right letter!  

 

Wiggly Inch Worm - The kiddos already knew about inch worms and how they bunch up then straighten out to move, so we made some!  The kiddos picked out a ribbon and then added a face on their worm.

Here are our worms at work...

I saw this idea on this blog:  Here!

Thankful Box Turkeys - The kiddos created adorable turkeys!  As they worked they told me things they were thankful for and I scribbled them on pieces of paper and then they put them in their box.  I hope parents continue this at home throughout the month!

 

 

Here are a few of the slips of thankful papers.... 

I saw this idea on this blog:  Here!

Releasing Wiggles - Just as we finished our turkeys, it began to rain outside.  So we had to let our wiggles out inside through dance and exercise.


Paper People - I have a few kiddos who enjoy crafting during free play.  Today they made these fabulous people!

 

Snack - Waffles! - Today is our wonderful, wacky, waffle Wednesday!  Whoopie!  We made them blue of course.  We also enjoyed syrup and whipped cream on them.  First we had to make them...Then we got to eat them!

Fall Trees - I hope you enjoy this beautiful leaf scatter!  The kiddos had bare tree trunks.  They drew on birds, bugs, squirrels etc.  Then we sprinkled tissue paper leaves in their branches and let the wind blow .... The leaves fly really well!

I saw this great idea on this blog:  Here!

Ha!  The state of the floor!  It looks like fall in here!

Coffee Filter Webs - Kinda like cutting snowflakes...

Sticky Web - The kiddos tried their hand at catching flies in a web. Well actually they threw the "flies" into the web, ha!

 

Learning Station - Web Weaving

The kiddos got to make their own spider webs today.  It's a bit trickier than it looks!