Spookley the Square Pumpkin

I love everything fall, especially pumpkins.  So we started our fall pumpkin unit Thursday and had so much fun!  We began by reading the story called, Spookley the Square Pumpkin.  This is such a sweet story about how everyone is made different and with a purpose.  At first Spookley was sad that he was not round like the other pumpkins until one windy night he saves all his friends from rolling away. 

 We used our dot paint and made a square pumpkin.

We put pumpkins in order from biggest to smallest.

We counted pumpkins.

We made pumpkin pudding and ate it with square crackers.  All of our sweet frogs gave it a thumbs up!

 

Lastly, we read a story called, Pumpkin Cat.  This is a story about the life cycle of a pumpkin.  While we read the story we stopped at each cycle and made our own lifecycle of a pumpkin.  When we finished the story, our Sweet Frogs could retell me the pumpkin cycle beginning with the seed.  Ask your child to tell you how a pumpkin grows!   



Scarecrow Boy

We began our day reading a story called Scarecrow Boy.  We learned that a scarecrow's job is to scare crows away from farmers' crops.  The little scarecrow boy in our story has to practice his fierce face.  Next, we played a scarecrow game and practiced our fierce face...take a look.

 

 

Scarecrow Boy Logan

 

Fierce Scarecrow Girl Leila

 

Scarecrow Boy Spencer would frighten any old crow away!

 

Scarecrow Boy Logan

 

 

We  also made a cute scarecrow that everyone got to take home!  They turned out so cute!

 









Counting Corn

We got a little "corny" at school on Thursday!

 

During Circle Time we read a story about corn and then we looked at a real ear of corn.  We touched it, smelled it, and peeled back its layers.  We talked about how God created all the parts of the corn perfectly so it can grow from a seed to a yummy, healthy food for us to eat.

 

We counted popcorn seeds.

 

We made the letter C out of Play-Doh

 

We counted candy corn and glued them onto a paper ear of corn.

 

We had a POPCORN PARTY and air popped some popcorn! 

 



We ate lots of popcorn and then used the extra for popcorn art!  We made popcorn squares!

 

Lastly, we made hand print candy corn that turned out Super Cute!  We have theses gems hanging in our room and will send them home in a few days. 

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

This week we went on a big adventure...A BEAR Hunt!!!  We started the day by reading the story, We're Going on a Bear Hunt.  When the kids left for Music class we set our bears on our circle time squares.  When we returned, the silly bears were GONE!  We had to find them!  First, we needed to make bear finding binoculars. 

Logan is ready for the Bear Hunt! 

 

We lined up and started our little bear hunt chant.  If your Sweet Frog has been driving you nuts reciting the bear hunt chant...I take full responsibility.  It's a catchy little tune. 

 

Lewis was first to find a bear! 

 

What a good eye Spencer has.  He found the pink bear way up in the tree!  Way to go Spencer!

Leila found T-Bear by the front desk. 

Logan found orange bear in our classroom! 

 

We spent the rest of our day doing Beary Good Work!

 

 

We counted bears on a number line.

 

We made patterns out of manipulative bears.

 

We did a little bear sewing.

 

 

And...we had to read We're Going on a Bear Hunt again...and again...and again on Thursday because we LOVE the book so much!