Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all our friends and families! Check out our pictures from our parade and Doodlebugs! Trick or Treating!

In the Pumpkin Patch!

This week we are learning about pumpkins! We learned the life cycle of a pumpkin, washed pumpkins, measured pumpkins, scooped the seeds out, painted pumpkins, played pumpkin games, and made pumpkin artwork. Tomorrow is our trick-or-treat day, and I cannot wait to see all of the fantastic costumes!

Our poem of the week is:
(Sung to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot")

I am a pumpkin
Orange and round
Here is my stem
And here is the ground.
When I get all cut up,
Don't you shout.
Just open me up
And scoop me out.

Using our 5 senses to describe the pumpkins

Measuring pumpkins

Painting witches hands and casting spells!

We painted pumpkins and played games with jack-o-lantern balloons!

Washing pumpkins on the sensory bin

We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin and made pumpkin seed art

Using our senses to describe the pumpkin

Dancing with the jack-o-lantern balloons

Our beautiful artwork with our art stars!

Letters of the week with our favorite letter books

Playing games on the computer

Poem of the week

Learning about jack-o-lantern shapes

Fall on the Farm!

This week our theme was Fall is on the Farm! We learned how animals help us on the farm and how farmers milk a cow. We even made homemade butter and shared it with Doodlebugs! classrooms. Each day we used our handprints to paint farm animals. We had so much fun during our Doodlebugs! sing-along. We were little pigs and held up our farm animal puppets while we sang "Old MacDonald Had a Farm." Our favorite song this week was "Animal Action."
Our poem of the week was:

Mr. Farmer comes out before the sun
And counts his animals for fun.
Little pigs 1,2,3!
"Oink, Oink!" The pigs play in the mud.
Little cows 4,5,6!
The cows need to be milked.
Little sheep 7,8,9!
The sheep's wool keeps us warm.
Little eggs,
There are ten.
They came from the hen!

Playing together

The chick says "cheep cheep!"

His favorite farm animal is the cow. "Moo, Moo!"

Making a baby chick with our hand and finger prints

Playing with the farm animal puppets

So excited for our farm animal sing-along!

Singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" with the other Doodlebugs! classrooms

We were the piggies in the sing-along!

Our farm animal puppets with our beautiful artwork behind us

Reading  "On the Farm" with our farm animals.

Mr. Farmer had a busy day!

This is how animals can help us

Having fun outside!

A very happy train engineer!

Our handprint animal art and the books we have been reading this week.

Painting our pigs

Reading our classroom farm book. Look who is in the door!

Playing with the farm animals at the farm center

Looking for acorns in the sensory bin full of fall leaves

Lots of laughs with the farm animals!

Dancing to our favorite song "Animal Action!"