October Fun!

We jumped into a new month this week, and have been having a spooky good time!

We learned about Bb and Xx with bones this week. Bones hold us up, protect our insides, and unfortunately, can break! We had a wonderful time guessing animals based on X-rays. Did you know that lots of animals around today look just like the pictures we see of dinosaurs? It was also fascinating to look at X-rays of people, too. There are so many bones inside all of us! We used lots of noodles to build some skeletons of our own after looking at all those X-rays.

 

 

 

 

Imagination station! Our play dough center this week was looking pretty plain-> just play dough and craft sticks were on the table. After a minute of thinking, though, these creative kids came up with all kinds of fun things to build! We made lollipops, jellyfish, porcupines, robots, spaceships and so much more.

   

  

  

  

We also got creative with our placemats. Using paper finger-painted last week, we drew and cut out pumpkin shapes, noses, stems, mouths, etc to create halloween pumpkins that are as cute as can be!

 

 

Learning letters! 

Making letters can be intimidating. But, if you use a monster finger to trace them in the sand, it gets a lot easier. 😉

 

 

 

 

We also practiced letters on chalkboards, with magnet pieces, made bracelets and built them with paper.

 

 

 

 

 

A new month means a new sensory table filler! This month we have black beans, fillable jack o lanterns and cauldrons, bones, eyeballs, monster finger puppets and pumpkin trays.

     

Nocturnal animals! We started our unit on nocturnal animals this week. So far we have read about  spiders and bats. After drawing a web with white crayons, we learned how to use squeeze pipettes at an art center, dripping Halloween colors all over the paper. After adding a sparkly spider, we have some beautiful webs to decorate our board. Our bat art needed some careful slow cutting to get the wings cut out. We learned that bats are NOT birds, but mammals, so they have fur, not feathers. So, we glued some fur on the bodies, and used the upside down pictures taken last week to make ourselves into some sleepy little bats.

   

 

  

 

 

Our vet center is still a favorite rug choice, but we mixed it up on Friday and put out the small blocks with the wrecking balls. Both were lots of fun!

 

 

 

We also had a big birthday!