Table time activities are always FUN! Drawing spiderwebs and spiders and putting on google eyes was the cutest thing to see. The kids were SUPER serious about making their spiders with 8 legs. Some kids also put a fly in the web.
Drawing pumpkins and decorating with Halloween stickers. They're working all those good fine motor muscles with stickers!
Working on their handwriting and letter printing. Even though the preschoolers know all of their letters, it's good to use upper and lower case together and let them practice often.
We talked a LOT about the changing leaves, but in Houston, it's hard to understand since they don't see a whole lot of it in their real life. My dad sent me some real RED leaves from Wisconsin for the kids to look at after we read in circle time about it and they were AMAZED, and it took some convincing to believe that those leaves used to be green. I got more leaves for next week to show the kids too.
ABC exercises were a hit this week. There is a card for each letter of the alphabet and we went through it during circle time twice. :) They really loved it. It was hard not to laugh at parts though. Like "J for jumping jacks". It is so fun to watch them try something so complicated.
Free choice gets so creative for these guys. They made themselves into pirates and made their pop-tubes into steering wheels and "drove" all over town. They honked their horns and shouted with their best pirate voices. So funny!
Snacks were provided by Hawken's Grandma. They were Halloween Rice Crispie Treats. Yum! The kids especially loved the spiders!
Dress up is serious business in preschool.
We played a LOT with the heroes. They even played hide and seek with them for a while. It was a surprisingly fun game.
Book reading has taken off. We are working a lot with letter sounds and noticing familiar words in text. These boys are SO smart.
Lunch time has never been funnier than with this group of boys.
Snacks of clementines disguised as pumpkins...
Free choice play, cutting fruit.
Marble tracks.
Memory game.
This week, I took out this bug center for the first time and the kids loved it. They got to learn a bit about each bug, and look at it under a magnifying glass.
Outside, the kids have been working hard on learning to PUMP! Please let them practice this at home or at a playground. They are learning!
Obstacle courses have been another fun outdoor activity.
We read a book called, "The Little Bit Scary People". It was all about people who looked scary (or different), and how nice they actually were, despite their appearance. Then the kids each drew something scary and explained why it wasn't really scary. They came up with the cutest answers.
Logan's monsters are not scary because they are all friends.
Ryan ghost is really not scary because it's actually an angel.
Hawken's monsters are really not scary, because they are his pet.
Jeff's monster isn't scary because it's really nice.
Practicing a few yoga poses at the end of the day has become another favorite. Mostly, we do very simple poses, but sometimes I let them try a hard one. Eagle pose, was more challenging than I thought, but the kids were still eager to try.
