Please be kind, I am not an artist! This is supposed to be a turkey. I know, I know!! The object here was to make patterns with the feathers. My turkey was on a sticky piece of contact paper. I had containers of different colored feathers. We started by making patterns on the carpet and then adding them to the...ummmm... turkey.
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A great way to welcome fall is by doing a nature walk. Luckily the ravine is close to my home....so off we went. Fall is all about beautiful colors. So we set out to find objects that matched the color swatches. Then we found things to do with all those leaves! With string tied to a tree we "sewed" leaves. Great fine motor and made a pretty decoration for back in our classroom! I had styrofoam trees and we added leaves to it with colored sticks. I'm sad to say I don't have a picture of this when it was completed, which is too bad, because it was so lovely!! It was a wonderful decoration for fall. And of course, it's so much fun to shake the trees and watch leaves rain down! Here's a few pictures from our day.... Once we picked all those crab apples, of course, we had to try and taste them. They were very sour and liked by only a few! I drew a large tree onto the driveway and placed crab apples on it. We then took turns balancing on the "branches" trying to pick up the apples. We walked with little steps, large steps, sideways... There were apples in our water table. They are great to scoop and pour and we used tongs to pick them up. We played counting games. We balanced apples. We painted with apples. We rolled apples in paint to make a unique apple. Apple prints. These were done with large apples. We read Apple Trouble (many times I might add!!) about a hedgehog that gets an apple stuck on his quills. We made hedgehogs out of apples and toothpicks and then had added all of the things that got stuck to him. It was a lot of fun to reenact the story. And what would an apple theme be without an outing picking apples! Many thanks to my neighbour who lets us visit her backyard every year to pick apples. And.....these cuties are why I LOVE preschool!! Adorable! I love the apple theme! There are so many fun things to do. Here are just a few that we did... The 4 year olds, cut out apples with the letters of their name. Match the letters on the apple to the letters on the tree. Apple puzzle. This was a game we played together during circle time. Each child rolled the dice and we found the corresponding puzzle piece then found it's correct spot. I used this tree for a game/song that we played. 5 red apples hanging on the tree. Everyone had a turn shaking the tree to make an apple fall down. The 3 year olds ripped paper to put make their tree. This is a skill that is much harder than it seems and is a great exercise for little finger muscles. A song that teaches letters and it's fun to sing! Especially when we "eat" the letters as we sing and make a great, big CRUNCH sound! Drawing sheets. I love these! I put them in a plastic page protector and then we can use dry erase markers on them. This one the children had to draw petals on the flowers and apples on the tree.
During the first month of school I always like to do an activity/craft that uses the pictures of everyone in the class so that each child can take it home and show their family their new friends. I also think its a great activity to reinforce everyone's name. This year I decided to use the rhyme, Who Stole the Cookie From The Cookie Jar. I started out by introducing it with stuffed animals....dog stole the cookie, cat stole the cookie, lamb stole the cookie. Then I used the children's name tags to do the song. Everyone thought this was very funny! I then introduced a book I made up with the rhyme using everyone's picture. From there we made one for everyone to take home. With all the pictures I was able to play a few games as well. Everyone had a large container with all the head shots of the class, I asked such questions as can you find a friend that has brown hair, blue eyes, starts with A and makes this sound...and of course I asked if they could find each specific friend as I named them out. Then we glued each picture into the book, matching it to the corresponding name. It was a fun activity and I was able to incorporate all kinds of preschool skills; cutting, painting, letter sounds, name recognition... and we now have a new book for our class library and it is one that everyone can read!!
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