Learning Station - Hh -

The kiddos just added stickers or stamps to Hh.  It was a nice easy hand-eye practice.

I got the cute dot Hh at this blog:  Here!

Halloween Week

Welcome to our week of Halloween fun!

Haunted Houses - The kiddos created spooky, haunted houses...beware!  I used Dial soap boxes, bent a 3x5 card in half and glued it on for the roof.  Then hit them real fast with some spray paint I had in the garage.  Once dried I used an exacto knife to cut out the doors and windows.

 I dug through the craft box to find odds and ends for making the houses spooky.  The dyed pasta and spider rings were a hit, as well as the erasers from Target.

 Glue Ghost Necklaces - This is an experiment.  We'll see how they work.  In theory our little ghosties just need to dry for a few days, then they'll peel off the wax paper and we can make them into spooky necklaces. ... We shall see....

 Googley eyes may have been a better choice, but the kiddos always love buttons.

Snack - Ghost Bananas - Ooooh!  Another class favorite.

Bread Tag Monsters - Spooky friends...

5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate - Youngsters - The three year old class LOVES this rhyme, so I put these together this morning for them.

The kiddos added a moon and spooky stickers.  Then we sang the rhyme over and over so they could act it out with their gates.

Journal Time - These kiddos just LOVE putting Halloween stuff in their journals.

 

Yahoo for pumpkin day!  We've been waiting all month for this day!

Pumpkin Sharing -  A kiddo brought everyone a pumpkin from her garden!  Thank you so much!

Pumpkin Time! - We went out front to pick out our pumpkins.  Then we carried them (with big muscles) to the backyard.

 

Pumpkin Wash and Dry - Got to get those pumpkins clean!

Later I pulled out our mini pumpkins for washing while we were playing in the backyard.

Pumpkin Decorating - We used various mediums:  Sharpies, tatoos, tape ...

 

Raking Leaves - We've been planning this ever since we noticed the big tree in the backyard was loosing it's leaves in the wind.

Cotton Ball Ghosts - Toddlers - Cute and easy.  The kiddos always like working with cotton balls, unless they have gluey fingers!

Train Track Oo - Pretty fabulous for a 2 year old Spiderman!

Mummified Kiddos - These turned out super cute!  Of course the kiddos thought I was turning them into mommies instead of mummies .... ha!

Pumpkin Decorating - Tissue Paper - Toddlers - This is my new favorite decorating style for littles!


Leaf Fun - Toddlers -

 

 The water table quickly became full of soggy leaves!

Learning Station - Ghost Beans - Toddlers

The kiddos enjoyed moving these spooky beans from the big bowl to the little ones.  Great fine motor work.  I only had to tell one not to eat them.  Ha!

Learning Station - Pumpkin Create

The instructions were:  Cut the orange pumpkin however you like, then decorate it.  

This is what we ended up with:

"This is my pumpkin garden."  Her family does have a pumpkin patch in their backyard.

 "This is a dragon girl pumpkin."

 "A monster jack-o-lantern eating a person (green).  He ated him!  Hee, hee, hee..."

I love how they are all so different, that was why I had to get a picture of each!

Learning Station - Ghost Counting

This is a class favorite.  I just draw ghost faces on large lima beans.  The kiddos usually want to take some home, so I end up making some more each year.

The kiddos identified the number, then counted out that many ghosts.  

Jj Week

Welcome to our Jumping, Jazzy Jj week!

This is a short week, because it's fall break for the schools.

Bowl Jellyfish - We watched some videos of jellyfish swimming, then we created our own!

Hello Jammie day!  Everyone was comfy today!  Since we missed doing pajama day during Pp week, the kiddos asked for jammie day.  So we did!

Jumping Jingle Necklaces - These were a hit!  They also helped with some of our wiggles.  The kiddos laced beads on either side of their jumping jingle bell.  Then they jumped and jingled all over the classroom!

 

Jam Making - Strawberry - Mmm.  Yum!  The kiddos did an excellent job squishing up the strawberries...  We ate it on toast once it set up a bit.

 Jack-O-Lanterns - Perfect Jj craft for October! 

And here are the youngster's...