Thanksgiving

We had a great week learning around the theme of "Thanksgiving"! The kids loved making their sweet handprint turkey crafts...

This is a special one saved for the portfolios. They used their finger prints and thumbs to make this turkey!

T is for TURKEY!!

Reading about Clifford's Thanksgiving. :)

Fun with "Thanksgiving Cutting", Maddie learning to cut with those little fingers.

As always, the kids love the sensory tub. They especially loved our new "fun dough" this week (purchased from Trike-a-thon donations)!

As usual, we reviewed colors last week. We mostly worked on all our fall colors as we made the turkey crafts, but this fun color song reviewed green and blue also. The kids love to be my helper and point to the words the song is singing about.

There were lots of sweet smiles as we were singing "If you're thankful and you know it and your smile will really show it..." during snack time :)

Too sweet not to snap another picture! Love all those smiles!!

...and they all love to dance:) Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break!! I will sure miss seeing all the kids next week. So THANKFUL to be their teacher... seriously they are such a blessing and joy to be with each week. See you all soon!

Leaves

Fun with fall leaves in the sensory table!

The kids made their cute handprint trees with Mrs. Beth. They always love paint. :)

L for Leaves! They glued real leaves and pictures of leaves to their letter L.

They traced the L with their fingers, and we sang our letter sound song.

Great job, Maddie!

Mallory looking at her dried fall tree!

This was SO cute! I had several colors and letters that I held up to the kids. When they saw the letter L they got to "Leap and Laugh" and say the L sound. When we saw the L, they just busted out laughing and jumping. It cracked me up... Mrs. Beth and I were laughing right along with them!! :)

Sweet listeners at circle time!

A cute little song we sometimes sing and say each child's name: "We see someone with ~polka dots on her shirt~ and her name is ~EVA!~ We're so glad you're at school today!!" They love it.

Matching and sorting colors with the fall leaves

More fun at centers!

A great way to get out all the wiggles:) Musical chairs to the "Alphabet Rap" but no chairs are taken away! They were adorable dancing around the chairs.

Spiders, Bats, and more Fall Fun!

Here is another glimpse into our sweet 2 year old classroom! What a great week we had focusing on the color black, the letter "B", and more fall fun!

Some of the kiddos got to be "teacher" and point to the pictures as we sang our "Black Song".

Of course this age is all about some pretend play! And it is so good for their little minds. Here some of the girls are at the beauty shop. ;)

Eva and Mady Kate having a little TOO much fun at the water table!! :) so cute!

They loved playing with the pumpkins more this week, making "Mr. Pumpkin Heads" and sticking stickers to them. (Thank you to Evan for bringing extra stickers in!)

We had a "color sort" at one of the centers this week. This was another fun activity to help with sorting, color recognition, and developing fine motor skills!

"Play-dough faces" were a big hit in the play-dough center. It was cute to see how some of the kids even added hair.

The kids enjoyed this "candy match!" activity. They chose pictures of candy that they got from Halloween, chose matches, and glued them to their papers. They always feel so big when they get to glue. ;)

The kids' favorite book this week was There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat! We talked about how bats are black and start with the "B" sound. We also sang our "B" song as we worked on our papers below. They enjoyed gluing the beans to the B's.

Myla and Mallory working together. Sweet girls.

Yay Eden!

more sensory fun and sorting black from white:

Below Karsen is working on her fall tree. These turned out so cute! The kids always love paint and enjoyed getting to use their fingers this time!!

Hope you all are having a great weekend! Looking so forward to next Thursday. :)