Harvest and Hibernate

Thank you Farmer Roberts for the Hay Ride!!

We painted our hands and stamped our signatures, to make a large Candy Corns. We glued our "hand" made candy corns around a picture of our class on the tractor bed, then Miss Janalynn delivered the card with a fun scarecrow to Farmer Roberts. He was sure happy to see all our hand prints.

"Bear Snores" on, by Karma Wilson, was the BIG highlight of the week. I got a copy of the CD, and the children had a blast listening to the narrator, and listening for the chime, to turn the page.

Scarecrows also play a part during harvest time. They are supposed to scare away animals, so they don't eat the crops, and seeds. We found out that scarecrows aren't really that scary when we read the book, "The Lonely Scarecrow" by, Tim Preston. I was really proud of the children who could cut out the scarecrow. Some I helped, but for the most part, all the children at least tried. We did a lot of practicing on our cutting skills this week. I can see much improvement in just a short time.

Squirrels, rabbits, moles, and hedge hogs love to harvest nuts. "The Nutty Nut Chase" by Kathryn White, was a fun read about sharing. afterwards, we cracked open peanuts and smashed the shells, to decorate a large paper nut. The peanuts were fun to eat too.

Who's the Turkey?

Who ever thought you could make a turkey out of a pine cone. The kids thought it pretty neat to be able to. We looked at a lot of pictures of Turkeys, learned a funny Turkey poem and read a funny book called "Ten Fat Turkeys" by Tony Johnston. Tracing our hand is something we love to do. Some were surprised to see that you could make a turkey with their hand print. I've been finding hand traced turkeys all over my house now.

Leaves Are Falling

It wasn't hard to take a short walk outside and find all sorts of leaves in every shape, size and color on the ground. We gathered leaves to make a pretty autumn frame around a poem we learned in preschool. We soon learned, however, that when leaves dry, they become crunchy, and are fun to stomp on.

We had wheat toast shaped like leaves, and topped them with strawberry jam, for our snack. We also read a fun book by Zoe Hall, called "Fall Leaves Fall!"

This week, we also learned about manners and how to be polite. We made place mats, with a place for our cups, plates, knives, forks, and spoons. We decorated our place mats with different shapes, and a manners song, that we will be continuing to learn throughout the year! On our new place mats, we ate our pumpkin cookies, and drank apple cider.