Since this was the first week of fall we talked all about the season. We talked about the change in weather, how the leaves change color then later will fall off the trees, and how we wear different clothes in fall. We went around and talked about what clothes we wore in the summer and what we're wearing now. It was perfect timing that the weather was so much cooler this week.
My backyard, which is fenced, backs to trees so we were able to collect leaves from outside that were green and brown. We brought them in and painted them with yellow and red paint and I showed the kids how to make orange paint by mixing the yellow and red. We let them dry and two days later we all glued them on a paper tree.
We read I Am an Apple, by Jean Marzollo. The book talked about apples but more specifically it mentioned if you cut an apple horizontally in half you can see a star so we tested the claim. It's true. We all passed the apple halves around so we could all see the star. Then we used them to make our apple stamp paintings.
We collected acorns outside and organized them by size and sorted them by color. We talked about how squirrels eat acorns and store them for the winter.
I made an apple number match up to practice number recognition and counting. I also made a seasons memory match game. The children really seemed to enjoy both games.
We looked around outside to see if we could find any trees with changing leaves. We noticed some looked like they were about to start changing colors.
We also made leaf rubbings by collecting leaves and taking a crayon and rubbing it sideways on the paper to transfer an image of the leaf onto the paper.
My backyard, which is fenced, backs to trees so we were able to collect leaves from outside that were green and brown. We brought them in and painted them with yellow and red paint and I showed the kids how to make orange paint by mixing the yellow and red. We let them dry and two days later we all glued them on a paper tree.
We read I Am an Apple, by Jean Marzollo. The book talked about apples but more specifically it mentioned if you cut an apple horizontally in half you can see a star so we tested the claim. It's true. We all passed the apple halves around so we could all see the star. Then we used them to make our apple stamp paintings.
We collected acorns outside and organized them by size and sorted them by color. We talked about how squirrels eat acorns and store them for the winter.
I made an apple number match up to practice number recognition and counting. I also made a seasons memory match game. The children really seemed to enjoy both games.
We looked around outside to see if we could find any trees with changing leaves. We noticed some looked like they were about to start changing colors.
We also made leaf rubbings by collecting leaves and taking a crayon and rubbing it sideways on the paper to transfer an image of the leaf onto the paper.
