Here comes Fall!!! This month I have so many fun things planned, not to mention a great halloween day! Here are some things that we have been working on before the start of Fall craftivities.
Here we have our B- Bear Letters. You can see that we are still figuring out which way the B goes, but they turned out super cute nonetheless.
The last week of September, we learned about growing up and our families. Here are some handprints the kids got to do to remember how tiny their fingers are! I put their names and dates on each. The kids loved how the paintbrush tickled they hands.
We had time to review color sorting. Here are our paper strips where the kids had to color sort, then glue the pieces on! They were great!
Then we tried sorting by size. The students had to glue down different sized straws in each section. I drew an example size in each to help them get started. Overall, I'd say this lesson was a great success.
As one of our new math centers, I made these puzzle strips. Students have to put them in order from 1-10 to see what picture they can make! They thought it was so exciting to see what picture they were making once the pieces were in order. Just find an old picture, cut, label each 1-10, and then laminate!
They can go portrait-way as well!
C- is for car tracks. I am happy with the way the colors got to blend together too! I just used plastic cars, but I am sure any will do.
Here are some family trees they made! I had them bring in lists of people who lived in their homes beforehand. Then I put their individual pieces in a ziploc with their names on it. The birds are the students! After glueing everything, they were allowed to draw a scene if they wanted to. It was a lot of prep, but they turned out super cute!!
D- Dot art! I challenged them and did mine (below) in a pattern. Students could try to do theirs in a pattern too. I'd say about 75% did a pattern, and the rest did what they wanted.
Next week I will be introducing these reading journals. When I read them a story, I will have them recall what happened in the story by drawing a picture and using key words to describe them. We will do this once a week!
This is the greatest thing ever!!! My new bean sensory bucket was a huge hit this past Friday. I used red beans, black beans, and split peas. The decorations were all from the 99 cent store. My TK team want to keep changing the buckets at least once a month to keep it exciting.
We just finished learning about "more", "less", and "equal". For our first fall project, I had them glue MORE leaves on the ground, and LESS leaves on the tree. Most of them turned out so cute!! Thanks mom for cutting out all these leaves!
This project was done with Q-tips. I wanted them to do MORE on the ground and LESS on the tree too, but I think most of them just needed practice dotting. Here are two examples. I am changing sleeping sally and hanging some of these next to her! Let fall begin!!!
