Newsletter
Hello Parents!
Our week about pumpkins was full of great experiences! We took a closer look at pumpkins and enjoyed many different pumpkin related activities. The children loved playing with our Mr. Pumpkin Heads! We made holes in real pumpkins and used all of our Mr. Potato Head accessories to make some really neat Pumpkin Heads! For our joint-group cooking experience we made pumpkin no-bake cookies. We taste tested the ingredients: pumpkin puree, maple syrup, sunflower seed butter, and oats, and smell tested the vanilla and pumpkin spice. It was fun to work with the no-bake dough and shape our cookies.
Looking ahead, we are so excited about starting our Halloween Week! We have some wonderful activities planned and are looking forward to a fun-filled week!
Butterfly Notes
We enjoyed a variety of activities while learning about pumpkins. We started out the week cutting open a pumpkin and learning about it's parts. We also learned about the pumpkin cycle from seed to pumpkin. We played a game with dice where we rolled them counted the dots and found a pumpkins with matching numbers , explored and painted with gourds, and made pumpkin collages. We ended our week tasting pumpkin seeds flavored with either sea salt or brown sugar and cinnamon. We had a lot of fun this week and are looking forward to celebrating Halloween next week.
Have a great weekend!
Stacy
Caterpillar Notes
We had a busy week learning about pumpkins. We started the week with a tasting experience comparing a regular lemon with a mayer lemon (which is supposed to be sweeter) and enjoyed smelling and even eating a little bit of the lemon. In the end we decided that we liked the mayer lemon better, but that they were both very sour! We had a multi day project to make paper jack-o-lanterns. In the first stage we discussed what colors are needed to make orange and used red and yellow (and a little white) to create various shades of orange which we then painted on large pieces of paper. The following day we cut the paper into pumpkin shapes and played a shape recognition game before using the cutout shapes to create our jack-o-lanterns. Other activities included painting with gourds, a nature walk to collect leaves, letter recognition, and pumpkin counting.
Our week about pumpkins was full of great experiences! We took a closer look at pumpkins and enjoyed many different pumpkin related activities. The children loved playing with our Mr. Pumpkin Heads! We made holes in real pumpkins and used all of our Mr. Potato Head accessories to make some really neat Pumpkin Heads! For our joint-group cooking experience we made pumpkin no-bake cookies. We taste tested the ingredients: pumpkin puree, maple syrup, sunflower seed butter, and oats, and smell tested the vanilla and pumpkin spice. It was fun to work with the no-bake dough and shape our cookies.
Looking ahead, we are so excited about starting our Halloween Week! We have some wonderful activities planned and are looking forward to a fun-filled week!
Butterfly Notes
We enjoyed a variety of activities while learning about pumpkins. We started out the week cutting open a pumpkin and learning about it's parts. We also learned about the pumpkin cycle from seed to pumpkin. We played a game with dice where we rolled them counted the dots and found a pumpkins with matching numbers , explored and painted with gourds, and made pumpkin collages. We ended our week tasting pumpkin seeds flavored with either sea salt or brown sugar and cinnamon. We had a lot of fun this week and are looking forward to celebrating Halloween next week.
Have a great weekend!
Stacy
Caterpillar Notes
We had a busy week learning about pumpkins. We started the week with a tasting experience comparing a regular lemon with a mayer lemon (which is supposed to be sweeter) and enjoyed smelling and even eating a little bit of the lemon. In the end we decided that we liked the mayer lemon better, but that they were both very sour! We had a multi day project to make paper jack-o-lanterns. In the first stage we discussed what colors are needed to make orange and used red and yellow (and a little white) to create various shades of orange which we then painted on large pieces of paper. The following day we cut the paper into pumpkin shapes and played a shape recognition game before using the cutout shapes to create our jack-o-lanterns. Other activities included painting with gourds, a nature walk to collect leaves, letter recognition, and pumpkin counting.
