What a fun literacy day we had with our “Big Pumpkin” book!
First, we read the story and reenacted it using picture cards. We then were able to open up a real pumpkin and explore what was inside. Following the pumpkin exploration, we did a pumpkin art project and had a pumpkin snack!
This week we learned all about the Pond Animal the Frog! It just so happened we also were learning all about the letter F!
We stamped the letter F frogs.
Frogs go through a life cycle. They start as eggs, then hatch into tadpoles and then they grow front legs and become froglets before losing their tail and becoming adult frogs.
We learned that frogs use their tongue to catch bugs and we pretended to be frogs and “caught” some flies.
Frogs can jump on average about 7 feet. We took turns jumping like frogs to see if we could go father. We all got pretty close, but none of us could jump farther than a frog!
We matched upper and lowercase letter frogs.
We reviewed our letters and numbers by hopping like frogs onto lily pads.
We fed our frogs insects while working our hand strength and fine motor skills.
Our math goal this month is SORTING! We have been sorting lots of things and this week we practiced sorting fruit loops by color! We had a lot of fun with this activity and learned all about finding the difference in a group of objects!
We have been talking about triangles this month in the toddler room, and learning about the 3 sides a triangle has. When learning about shapes, it is always fun to see if they can find every day objects that are made of triangles, like the roof of a house! Below you can see we even used triangles to help make our “‘D’ is for ‘Dinosaur'” alphabet page!
Triangles on triangles!
Matching triangles with different patterns and colors
Orange is the color of the month for October, which is fitting with the colors of Fall and Halloween all around us! We have been doing a lot of orange activities this month. We sorted different items that were colored orange, made a pumpkin craft with orange paint, and did an open-ended orange collage using glue sticks and assorted paper shapes!
Orange Collage!
We had to snap a picture of our friend in her orange outfit 🙂
Pumpkin prints using pool noodles. Check out those hand grips!
Putting our 5 little pumpkins on the gate
We practiced prewriting the letter E this week by building it with elbow macaroni!
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