Friday October 14th Trees, Leaves and the Letter "T"

This week we our Theme is Trees.

Some of our activities on Monday were...

Did I Grow On A Tree?

The kids split into 2 groups and I gave each group a bag full of items.  They got to sort those items in to 2 piles and determine whether or not those items grew on trees.  Some of the items were leaves, rocks, grass, pine needles, bark, fruit , vegetables, acorns, flowers, etc.

We went on a tour of the neighborhood and collected leaves and brought them back to do leaf rubbings

Our music today focused on the seasons.  We sang a song to the tune of "The Farmer and the Dell" 

For Arts and Crafts the children had fun making popcorn trees.

We are really focusing on our names this week.  Many of the children can already recognize their names so we have names on everything so that they can practice finding their names.  

Or books for today were....

 Franklin Plants a tree by Sharon Jennings

 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Tuesday Activites were...

Introducing Thomas the Tiger

We also sang "I'm a Little Pine Tree" to the tune of I'm a Little Tea Pot

We played a game in a circle were we threw the ball to our friends and then spelled their names.

They had fun playing ring around the rosy, but substituted the words ring around the trees, pretty autumn trees, red leaves, orange leaves, they all fall down. 

We talked about Pine trees and why they don't change colors.

The books we read today..

 Night Tree by  Eve Bunting

 

A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe

Friday's Activites were...

The ever famous sound box......

What did your child pull out of the box?

Tree, top, taffy, tangerine, tape, telephone, teddy bear, teeth, tiger, tortilla, tractor, truck, t-shirt, turtle.

We gathered outside and painted leaves with stamps and water on the side walk

The books we read today were

 The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall

Ten Apple Up on Top by Dr. Suess

Our music today was "Popcorn Popping"

For Arts and Crafts we mad Finger Print Apple Trees.  Sorry no pics ;(

Make sure to watch this fantastic video with your kids, it was great to see the expressions on their faces.  I know they will love to show it to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmIFXIXQQ_E

It has been an exciting Week, see you next week.