The Autumn Mood

🍁Autumn Themed Painting and Sensory Play 🍂

The autumn season is now in “full bloom” and we are definitely enjoying being surrounded with the beautiful colors of brown, red, orange, and yellow.

Cinnamon scented play dough, dried leaves, potpourri, and animals toys were today’s tools that showcased our creativity and curiosity. Here are some discoveries made:

C: “I’ll feed the animals with brown vegetables!”

S: “Can these (corn kernels) connect (on the eyes of an animal toy)?”; “Can this pig eat leaves?”

T: “Gorilla can hang on the tree!”

J: (after smelling potpourri): “Smell good!”
Erika: “How does it smell?”
J: “Smell like Monday!”

R added “eyes” on her creation by pushing dried berries onto the play dough.

We also made several interesting “autumn” characters that we are planning to use when we make our own story! Can you help us give each character a name?

On the other table, we used sliced sweet potatoes and dried leaves to stamp gold & red accents on an old cardboard painting we did last week. It was interesting to feel the “rough” texture of the sweet potatoes’ flesh.

Laces and Beads

Lately, we’ve been working on our fine motor skills through drawing. For a change, we “strengthened” it by doing lacing. J enjoyed this activity and made big chunky necklaces for herself and K. She also showed Liezel how she was able to tie a knot around blocks with the lace! P on the other hand discovered that he can spin the large beads like a top!

Circle Time

Halloween was a “big” topic for us last week. To guide us in understanding that the event has passed, our teachers are slowly putting down decors. Erika showed us a summery video of last Friday’s event to which we all giggled seeing ourselves in costumes!

We can’t wait for you to see it!

Leaves! Leaves! Leaves! Falling off gently from the branches. To start off our morning roll call, our cue to say our names and greet everyone a “Good Morning” was when a leaf would fall on top of our heads. All of us were mesmerized watching the slow motion of leaves falling from above. Gentle hands were needed in order to keep the dried leaves in its shape because if we don’t, the leaves will get crushed and turned into bits and pieces.

After all of us have received a leaf, we were asked suggestions of other ways we can do with it. We can blow on it! We huffed and we puffed until we blew with all our might until the leaves start to lift off from the floor! That was a good lungs workout! The leaves started to gather in a pile and when we saw Erika lying flat on her stomach to blow leaves, we took the opportunity to mimic the pile of leaves by lying on top of her!

While waiting for our turn to wash our hands for snack time, we sang Elizabeth Mitchell’s version of “Peace Like A River” and our teachers were surprised that most of us remember its lyrics and actions even though we often don’t sing it.

Here’s a YouTube link to the song: https://youtu.be/329t5D3ZTaw

Out to Collect Leaves

We geared up to go to the pond to gather more leaves. The pond area was bursting with the colors brown, red, and yellow! We picked up leaves of different colors and sizes… throwing it to the pond and watching it float.

We hope all of you are having a lovely Tuesday so far.

Love,
Buds Class Children