Sharing and Caring: The “I’m a Little Behind on Fall” Post

We have been busy doing our learning using all the convenient fall themes! I promise I will write soon about the heart of what we do most days- Daily 5, Writer’s Workshop, Math Workshop, Calendar Math, and on and on. Right now it’s just more interesting to share the fun stuff! Let me tell you, there’s been A LOT of fun stuff! We love when learning occurs without the kids even knowing it! We sneak it in to new exciting ways, we’re tricky like that:)

One naturally occurring theme in the fall is apples. Most children have an apple orchard story to tell, and all of them like some sort of apple food whether it be the fruit, pie, sauce, or juice! This year we brought in a variety of apples for the kids to taste and then let them pick their favorites.

Red was the overwhelming favorite! Green also seemed quite popular, and the kids did a great job of coming up with descriptive words(adjectives) for the taste of them. Sour was among the most used!

Lo and behold, we had a few yellow apple lovers!

After everyone declared their favorites, we used that information to graph. We also practiced making patterns with apples, made an apple book to add to our book boxes, and read several stories about apples-fiction and nonfiction!

This month we were also lucky enough to have the Walled Lake Fire department come out and do a presentation for us. I know many preschools do this, and they will likely see it again in first and second grade, but they never seem to tire of seeing that big shiny truck! It gives a friendly face to those otherwise scary looking firemen in uniform, and familiarizes the children with the purpose of each piece of equipment.

That was back when the weather was still nice! No coats!

In other exciting happenings…we had our 40th day of school on Halloween! Zero the Hero made another secret visit and left us a surprise! On the 30th day of school he brought us zero shaped gummy candy(yum!). This time he left us brand new pencils!