FALL FUN!

Halloween, spiders, bats, and lots of leaf activities comprised our last two weeks of school. These guys enjoy doing their arts and crafts, but are more than willing to exercise and dance to the music. Note their intense faces as they work and play in the pictures.



Teamwork is the best.


All of us can put the numbers 0-10 in order and Mrs. Angela is so very proud of us.


We learned a big word this week. It was estimation or to guess. We guessed how many leaves we picked out of a basket in one hand, and then we had to really count them. We sure have some big hands and counted in groups of tens.

The boys got quite a surprise when we lifted the painted leaves off the paper. They did turn out fantastic.

Instead of using paintbrushes to make the leaves on our trees, we used pencil erasers and dipped them in fall colors.

Multitasking ----raking the leaves and playing the guitar.

And the race was on........who could blow the tissue paper leaf to the finish line????

He said, "It's a fall picture." I said, "That's amazing."

Leaf dancers we called them. We danced to fast and slow classical music. I bet you can guess which one we liked the best.

Matching capitals and lower case letters was an easy task for us.

Play dough is excellent for developing fine motor skills or in this case making creepy crawling spiders.

The finished product. Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We created our own spider webs and put the spider in it.

We learned a lot of facts about spiders, especially that they are helpful to us.

We had to continue the pattern with bats and owls and stars and other "nocturnal" creatures we were learning about.

Pumpkin bingo with candy corn for markers. Yummy.

The perfect Halloween activity was making the scariest monster ever.

I'm not sure which they enjoyed more -the icing cookies or eating them?

Lots of Hands On Activities

The last two weeks we have been studying Fire Prevention, and pumpkins. Both of these topics have led to many hands on activities and reviewing our academics. Enjoy the pictures as you see how our friends share the love of learning.

Digging out the seeds and feeling the pulp was quite fun!!!!!

How creative can you make your pumpkin face?


A DISCOVERY!!!!!!!!! These two shapes make a circle.

These orange strips of papers made cute three dimensional jack-o-lanterns, but before we put our glue to work we formed all our letters that we could with straight lines. We also discussed why we couldn't make our new letter U.

Can you tell what letters we made with our bodies????? The boys could visualize these capitals.

The shaving cream cans were our fire extinguishers, but they became so much more. We practiced our numbers, shapes, letters, and became such smart little firefighters.

The firetruck races to the fire.

An orange was a good example of our three layers of skin if we get burned. The peel being our ouside skin, the white part is the next layer, and the fruit is next to the bone. OUCH!!!! Their comments showed they were aware of the danger.

These cups were decorated with spots and turned into Dalmatian dogs to go along with our Fire Prevention Week theme.

We practiced what to do if our clotes catch on fire. "Stop, Drop, Roll."

Our science experiment shows that if a flame doesn't get any air, it goes out.

APPLE EVERYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our Kindergarten Bridge class did every imaginable kind of activity with apples in the last two weeks. Some of these included painting with them, lacing them together, cutting them, dipping them, eating them, playing games with them, reading about them, and sorting them. Our small little class allows us time to really get into our themes and have fun while reinforcing our skills we've learned in the morning class. The pictures below display some of this apple fun!!!!!!!

Hot apple game instead of Hot potato game.

Apple bingo with apple cereal seemed like a game, but we really reviewed all our numbers and letters.

Our list of yummy things made from APPLES.

We know all the parts of the apple and we know that a group of apple trees is an orchard.

A fine motor lacing activitiy.

An apple relay race just for fun!!!!!!

We cut our apples before we got to dip them in caramel .....mmmmmm good.

Apples make terrific painting tools.

Sorting apples two ways--by size and color.