More Apples and Lot's o' Fall Activities!

5 Red Apples

The children enjoyed this fun youtube video as part of our Centers last week.  Not only did they love singing along with the video, but they also painted, cut and pasted their own props to make the poem come alive!

Songs, poetry, and props not only make learning easier for some, but more meaningful and more fun for all.  This week the children will learn the poem "Five Little Pumpkins", use actual pumpkins as props, and be able to follow along with a book that depicts the words and pictures as well.

First Fruits Hydroponic Farm

We all were very excited to visit First Fruits Hydroponic Farm last week.  The children have been learning about different styles of gardening and how fruits and vegetables grow.  They have even practiced with dramatic play gardening in the Exploratorium, and tending to our real garden outside on the playground. It was really cool to see how, and experience how first hand to grow plants the hydroponic way.  The stacking planters filled with special planting medium, watered three times daily, and given nutrients once a day produce many more plants, with less weeding too!  The children had so much fun helping the farmer and his son to build the "stacks", add the planting medium, then actually plant strawberry plants for growing in the farm.

In "The Jungle" as they call it.  Tomato jungle!

Go ahead and visit with your family.  Maybe the children can pick the fruits of their labor!  Strawberries in January!

Fall Exploring Fun!

 Halloween fingerprint art.  Very popular with the children!

Friday was Exploring Day!  The children had a frightfully great time exploring all sorts of spooktacular Halloween activities!

The tactile room with goulish things to touch and play with like "mummy eyes", and "werewolf fingernails", sparkly pumpkin shaving cream, and "noodley" pumpkin vines with bats and spiders inside, was terrifyingly terrific. 

The children loved playing BOO BINGO! The Mr. Pumpkin Head...Halloween for Mr. Potato Head, was heartily received!

And there was sooooo much more! :)

Go Chargers!!

Everyone was in full spirit for the opening of our new athletic center!  The children were "charged" about seeing the amazing facility and cheered their little hearts out with the crowd!

It was a great week in Junior Kindergarten!  The fun goes on!  It will be a funtastic fall week this week.  Join us for the Fall Festival on Friday!  The Happy Halloween Parade will begin at 8:30am with some frightfully fun costumes!  See you then!

Happy Week!

Mrs. Carson