Flying Through the Month of October!   


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We began the week with a  little fun tactile and small motor development activity. We pounded T's into a pumpkin.  Nearly everyone wanted a turn and enjoyed the challenge.

Lots of opportunities for "C" activities followed.

"C" is for Caterpillar with "7" pompoms.

"C" is for candy, 7 pieces!

"C" is for Cup-Cakes with candy sprinkles.

"C" was in our Bible verse, "Children, obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing to the Lord. " Colossians 3:20

We are learning and playing and making memories in our many centers:

Hunter is conducting class and going over skills with his students. I wish you could have heard his "teaching!"

We have a rather unusual fixation on being animals. Occasionally I must ask them to turn back into humans! 

 Miss Andrea helped our "Preppers" make a pumpkin project that sequenced the process form seed to pumpkin: See if they can tell you about it.

Little Miss Rayna looked like the "Princess of White" on Friday.

Fire Prevention…...

We were blessed with another visit from Dane's daddy and the Lafayette Township Fire Department.

Along with a wonderful video on fire safety, Fireman Brandon reminds us to not to hide, but go outside! Also, he reminded us how to yell for help if a firefighter would need to find us in our house.

We practiced crawling- which we would do if our house had smoke.

We even got to go inside a REAL Fire truck!

We worked on doing our best in our Minds in Motion room.

We have nearly mastered getting our socks and shoes on…all…    by…. our…. self!

Fridays are always special with our letter of the week and color of the week clothing show and tell.   Here are just a few:

 Cardinal Cap

Cars 

and more cars 

Charlotte loves this Cat- we decided she can bring it back for letter k and we will call it her "kitty"

Castle

Camera 

Candy

 

For white, we found cute little polkadots on Allies pants.

Some of our white clothing~

We tasted pumpkin seeds- most tried them whole, then we made a scatter graph to post whether we liked them or not. Owen said they taste like the animals at a petting zoo!!!!! I'm sure he's never tasted the animals there, but actually, they have a certain strawish* taste!!

*made up word :)

The Preppers* are learning to make observations on our graphs.  I was surprised how many liked the seeds. (It was getting close to lunch time??)

Letter C Song - Carl the Crazy Cow

Flying Through the Month of October!

                  

Our week started with a couple of songs about "C" and a song about about the color "white."  I don't know why Carl the cow showed up twice ???

                                                             

white color word song

Leaves, Lessons and Love

Leaves...Lessons....Love

Brown, the number 6, the letter and sound of Uu, and a Bible Story on being thankful, anchored our learning this week. Finding words that related to 4s and 5s that begin with U was challenging......so we stuck with the traditional umbrella, up, underground animals, and umpire....and added the less traditional UNDERPANTS- which seemed to be a hit! And for lack of finding better songs we sang-( and Yes, please practice this at home....)

Who let the U's out?

"U," "U," "U," "U," U".....

Who let the U's out?

(make the short "u" sound like in "umpire" or the sound of an annoyed teenaged girl!)

And the old standard: Ugly Underwear Song!

(tune: if you are happy and you know it)

Oh, Im glad I don't have ugly underwear.

I'm glad I dont have ugly underwear!

It would make me switch and twitch,

And maybe even itch,

Oh I'm glad I don't have ugly underwear.




(I could not get the b-r-o-w-n song to load, but here are the words, it is to the tune of B-i-n-g-0

BROWN 
There is a color we all know 
Can you guess what it is? 
B R O W N 
B R O W N 
B R O W N 
That's how you spell brown 
Teddy bears and squirrels are brown. 
Autumn leaves are too 
Chocolate candy's always brown 
Chocolate cake is always brown 
Chocolate milk is always brown 
I like brown, don't you?

www.schooltube.com/video/1a6e2a65f96372eaf22b/‎

might get you there?????

For the Children who arrive between 8:15 and 8:30, there are age appropriate activities to select.

Hunter fell in love with Boggle.

Bree used the Unifix cubes to make descending, constructed numbers. 

Adeline made impressions in playdough.

Eden used pattern pieces to make a bracelet.

Sarah is "Writing the Room," looking for words to copy.

Charlotte chose to practice writing numbers.

Some of our Brown and Uu activities

Rayna and Bree painting a brown bear and stamping the word      b-r-o-w-n. 

Dylan, Hunter Dylan, Eliza and Charlotte (in disguise) 

Elsie works on a cut and paste project.

"U"n-dressed

      Dressed  


         

                

Eden, Adeline (on two different days) and Crew build U's in the block area.

Having fun in our centers...

Lincoln and Allie enjoy the home living area.

Dressing up is always a hit.

Crew's eyes lit up when I showed him this new addition to our imagination area.

 

We are making good memories and good friends.

Charlotte and Eliza show off their fall lacing projects.

We discussed and sorted leaves.  (Big and small, by colors, by shapes...)

Miss Andrea helped the "Preppers" make a beautiful leaf print collage.

And then ......the Underpants!

Along with the coordination and exercise, remember that every activity in the "Minds in Motion" room is tied to a specific brain development. Some relate to near/far focusing, some to aiding in being able to sit and listen, many strengthen perception. Each one helps the brain to make connections that will aide in learning. (the benefits are listed at each station, some day walk through and take a look)

Have a wonderful fall break!