Our Tt Party!

We had a great week! Thanksgiving is just around the corner, so we started off the week learning about the Mayflower and pilgrims. We finished up several Thanksgiving projects, including our Turkey wreaths. Each morning for the past couple of weeks, we have cut out hand outlines. Wednesday, we each used one hand cutout from each of our friends to make a "Thankful for our Friends" turkey. These came home Friday, along with our pilgrim picture frames, owls and nature collages from last week.

Tt was our focus letter, and we did a terrific job learning how to write it and make the sound. On Tuesday, we had a grand Tea Party! Using real cups and saucers, we drank hot tea and ate toast together, and other than handling the toaster, did everything ourselves. From adding sugar cubes (one lump or 2?), spreading butter, to washing dishes and setting the table, we took care of the details like big kids! After we finished, we wrote some Tts on our (paper) tablecloth.

Our letter turkeys needed some matches made between upper and lowercase letters! 

Using a magnet wand, we dug capital letters out of the turkey corn to lay on our turkey mats with the lowercase letters. 

We ended our Tt Party day with a round of our new favorite song and dance: Tooty Ta!

Other Thanksgiving fun included flannel boards and playing with our big Mayflower and people.

We used tools (magnifying glasses and rulers) to explore all kinds of nature items. 

As a sweet ending to the week, we made yummy pinecones out of pretzels, cereal and a little frosting glue- delicious!

Fall Fun

We started out our week talking about the cornucopia basket, and how it is a traditional Thanksgiving symbol because it holds harvest foods. We got to work on some fruits and vegetables that needed painting, learning how to use just one brush, washing and drying the brush in between colors.

Our sensory table for November has dried corn and farm animals- we love playing at this table!

Thursday, we started out the morning with a shared reading activity for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves.

Then it was time to head outside and see what could be found on a nature walk. 

 After our nature walk, we got down to our morning centers.

sorting our nature walk finds:

 

leaf gems on the light box:

 reading all about leaves in our Let's Find Out magazine:

Friday morning we got to work with all those items from our nature hunt and made nature pictures. You can see them hanging up in our room and in the hall.

We had some special visitors from Oatland Island! Ms. Michelle brought us 3 nocturnal animals to meet: Crocus the alligator (nocturnal during the heat of the summer), Astrid the opossum, and Icarus the screech owl. Ms. Michelle had lots of wonderful facts to share, as well as some bones, feathers, and songs. All our 4s were attentive and polite, and loved meeting our animal friends!