Hello, Friendly Fox Families!
What a wonderful week of Pumpkin studies and fun we have had! We are also still enjoying this gorgeous Autumn we are having along with the mild weather. The children seem very comfortable and settled at school and some don’t even want to leave at the end of the day! We are grateful for this lovely bunch of sweet ones. I am teaching sign language to go along with many of our songs. They are soaking this up like sponges and can surely show you some of their favorites.
We are thoroughly enjoying decorating our room with all the beautiful art that we are making with each unit. This week we made our own pumpkins to put in our little pumpkin patch, made some paper bag pumpkins to take home, and even some beautiful Autumn leaf wreaths. We read some lovely books about Autumn and pumpkins, and the life cycle of pumpkins. We even made our own “How a Pumpkin Grows” sequencing take-home books! The children seemed very proud of these. We have been practicing some sweet rhymes together, including our “Five Little Pumpkins” song which we added to our special journals. We scrubbed our real pumpkin squeaky clean with toothbrushes, cut it open and delighted in sorting out the insides. We became pumpkin scientists and explored it with magnifying glasses and we learned all the parts of the pumpkin fruit and plant. Hundreds of seeds were in there! We then pounded pegs into it and turned it into geoboards. We played with lots of small world pumpkin sensory bins, built pumpkin patterns with unifix cubes, completed some fun letter “P” hunt and so much more! Friday was our annual in-school Fall Festival and the children were thrilled with all of the special games and activities, especially hunting for their very own little pumpkin in our “pumpkin patch” outside. Thank you so very much to everyone who sent in supplies and to our volunteers! As always, we also enjoyed our story time with Allison.
As we look toward November, we will start thinking about our annual Art Show. This is a special unit for our whole school in which each class will delve into the wonderful world of diverse art and artists. We take up-close looks at artists and how unique the style of each can be. We will be making many of our own creations and saving them to put on display for the December Art Show. Your family will get a special invitation from you child later on with details.
Please remember to dress your child warmly as the weather begins to change. Please also check to make sure your child’s spare change of clothes are warm enough for the changing temperatures. We take all the children outdoors all year – hooray for fresh air and free play!
Thank you for all you do!
Wynne
Wisdom begins with wonder
