Oct 21

Stories 
Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin 

Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. -- All day long he hears: Click, clack, moo  But Farmer Brown’s problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes! 

Federick by Leo Lionni  
While the other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away.

Pumpkins by Melvin and Gilda Berger  
Fall is pumpkin time!   Simplistic non-fiction text with photographs and fun facts.

Small Groups
Tuesday - sorting leaves by color

Wednesday - sorting pumpkins by size

Thursday-  coloring a scarecrow by following directions

Choice Time
Kitchen - Fall clean up, Raking leaves and putting them in bags
Blocks - Wooden blocks and Farm animals
Table - Playdough
Math - Shape sorting by placing foam shapes into correspondence barns with the same shape
Sensory - Finding apple pom poms in Rice
Rug - Waffle Blocks
Art-  Making cows and horses

October 14th

Stories
The Three Little Pigs - Retold by Patricia Seibert
Leaves, Leaves, Leaves  by  Melvin and Gilda Berger
Time to Harvest by Melvin and Gilda Berger

Small Groups
Tuesday - We created a farm scene by matching shapes.  This will be shared with you at conferences.

Wednesday - We played, "Where is the barn?"  Students took turns turning over a card with a farm animal to try and find the picture of the barn that was hiding.  We also used star builders to make our creations and some fun shapes.

Thursday- We will be creating ducks for our farm mural.

Choice Time
Kitchen
Blocks - Making homes for our animal friends with yellow blocks
Table - Playdough
Math - Shape sorting by placing foam shapes into correspondence barns with the same shape
Sensory - Rice
Rug - Cars

Week of October 7th

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our open house, it was great to see so many families.  If you missed our open house and have questions about our class or any time throughout the year, please feel free to ask. 

The stories we will be reading this week include:

Apple Farmer Annie   
"Filled with bright primary colors and pictures of America's favorite fruit, Wellington's enticing story follows Annie, a busy apple farmer. She picks, counts, sorts, bakes tasty treats, and sells her best apples." Penquin Random House


Apples and Pumpkins    "A young girl spends a glorious fall day picking apples and searching for the perfect pumpkin in this refreshed classic." Amazon


The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything  
"But one autumn night, while walking in the woods, the little old lady heard . . . clomp, clomp, shake, shake, clap, clap. And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life! ... And the little old lady who was not afraid of anything had the scare of her life!"  Amazon


Throughout this unit, we will be creating a mural of a farm scene - We will post a picture of this scene at the end of the unit.

Small Groups
We will be painting pigs to add to our farm scene - We will be using paint and shaving cream for this activity.

We will decorate fall pictures with stickers - we are working on placing one sticker in one dot to work on one to one correspondence.

We will be painting a large barn and silo together as a group.

Choice Time
Kitchen
Making pens for farm animals with blocks
Playdough Mats - rolling ball to add to  our apple trees
Math - Identifying the numeral and adding that many apples to our apple trees
Sensory - Rice
Table - Decorating acorns