A Fabulous Fall

The first week of October we finished up our unit on friends. We welcomed the Fall by pulling out our plants some of us grew over the summer to get ready for winter. While cleaning out our garden we found a caterpillar! We made a home for it and watched transform into a cocoon. The students decide to name the caterpillar “Butterfly”.

During the first week of October the afternoon class was hard at work, learning our schedule and mastering new skills like hand writing, rhyming, alliteration, and counting to 20!

Our second week we started our unit on family! We learned what a family is and who is in each of our families. We sang songs and played instruments with Ms. Nora like "Finger Family". 

Both of our classes took a trip to the Fall Harvest Apple Orchard. There, we went on a hayride, fed animals, walked through the pumpkin patch, and enjoyed many of the activities for kids, like a giant jumping pad, a big slide, a race track, and a train ride, 

 The third week of October we made more fall art projects to decorate our classroom. We spent a few days walking over to the park and enjoying the unusually warm weather. We continued learning about family by reading books like "Who is In My Family?" by Robie H. Harris and "Tell Me What You Did Today" by Rick Kupchella. We talked about activities we do with our families, how we help our families, what families look like, and what types of foods we eat with our families. We introduced more to our curriculum like vocab words to help students recognize sight words and we added science projects. 

We ended the month of October by having a Fall party! Our kids dressed up, we dissected a pumpkin, decorated bags for candy, painted pumpkins, made corn on the cob, and played pumpkin tik-tak toe.