Dramatic Play
With the Fall season rolling in quickly, the dramatic play area grew some tall apple trees! There were also fall leaves everywhere! We really enjoyed picking the apples off the trees and filling up our baskets. We loved talking about and collecting the different colors and deciding which were our favorite. Sometimes we offered a few big juicy apples to our friends. Other times, we would use the apples to make special treats, including apple pies and apple sauce. We loved raking the leaves into a big pile and them jumping into them!
Block Area
It was really fun building train stations with our friends. We loved creating long train tracks and putting up all the different street signs. We also really enjoyed flying the airplane and helicopters all around the world. We loved filling them up with passengers and of course the pilot as well as animals, trees, trains and more! The new magnet people have been exciting to create with, making people that look like us and our friends.
Nature Area
We really enjoyed meeting our new caterpillar friends! They have been eating and growing day by day, just like the caterpillar from “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” We love learning about the different stages caterpillars go through, including: eggs, babies, adults, chrysalis, and butterfly. We love watching them crawl around their homes and are excited for them to turn into butterflies! We've been wondering what colors their wings will be and all have different ideas! We also still love the viewfinders and searching for all the different animals and creatures.
Art & Literacy
We really enjoyed creating our own art pieces and decorating them with stickers! We liked drawing homes for the different types of bug and frog stickers. It was fun showing our ideas through art and we loved showing our work to our loved ones at the end of the day! Play Doh is still one of our favorite activities and we request it often. We love creating different shapes and making cakes and cookies to share with friends.
Gross Motor
It was really fun riding on the wooden horse and pretending the mattress was the wagon. We really enjoyed bringing friends to their destinations. We also really liked jumping on the mattress together, often playing "no more monkeys jumping on the bed," and love running back and forth to the teepee.
Music
The music area was filled with original music and special collaborations. We really enjoyed discovering the different sounds piano make and playing them together. One of our favorite songs to play was "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." We rediscovered the egg shakers and used them in a lot of musical ways especially loving dancing with them as they shake to other music..
Quiet Area
We continue to read books throughout the day. We also really like reading books to our stuffed animals and dolls. We love comparing items in books to the ones we have in our classroom. It was also nice when we read alongside with our friends. The Richard Scarry books have been a favorite to read together as there are lots of exciting and funny things to find on each page.
Cognitive Area
We had a lot of fun with the magna tiles! We made ice cream stands, rockets, zoos, houses, and more— the possibilities were endless! It was especially fun when friends contributed their ideas to our own. With teamwork involved, we created many masterpieces! We especially loved making things with doors to put our animals and cars into and loved finding them again when it crashed. We really enjoyed using the alphabet letters and pointing out which letter our names started with. The puzzles were also very fun to figure out how to put together and we often used the pieces as tickets and cookies for friends.
Outside
It was really fun going on different adventures with all of our friends! We loved going on the big boat and tall slides at the boat park. We imagined ourselves as captains and sailed all over the world; we made sure to send our friends back home afterward. The swings were also really fun, especially when our friends helped pushed! During our walks on field trips, we really liked looking at the different plants and houses around us. It was exciting whenever a muni train passed by. We also saw a lot of helicopters and planes in the sky; we really enjoyed talking about where the planes were going to. Since we removed our tomato plants in our backyard, we've planted new vegetables- snap peas and carrots! We really enjoyed watching them grow slowly and can't wait until we can eat them! We liked going on the swing and pretending we're on a spaceship, traveling into space. We visited many different planets, including venus, saturn, and jupiter! We always made sure all of our passengers are on board before taking off. Sometimes the spaceship would land on top of the climbing structure; we really liked offering a hand to passengers who needed help climbing to the top. We pretend that the lower log is a bus, and love getting on it together. We have been enjoying the climbing wall and slide going up and down together in lots of different ways. We also have been making lots of different creations on the chalkboard and in the sand pit.