Fall Fun Part 2 - Pumpkins

~Bella is 34 months~

~Caiden and Ada are 17 months~

For our second week of Fall Fun we did some more Pumpkin activities.  I have these pumpkin mats that also had seeds with numbers on them.  She then had to count the correct number of seeds and put them in the pumpkin.

The twins had free play with their mats and seeds.  We did do just some counting work with them too though.

During free play, Ada really like putting the seeds in the bag and then dumping them and cleaning up again :)

Then we worked on drawing our emotions on the pumpkins.  

I had some left over weekly readers from when I was teaching in daycare that I laminated.  So I had one that was a pumpkin patch seen where she had to find different items in the picture.

She also worked on 4 part puzzles.  She really enjoys working on puzzles these days.

Here is a number Puzzle of a scarecrow....

Next I have a bunch of pumpkin sheets where she works on shapes.  She traces the ones on top and then only colors in that shape on the pumpkin.

We recently started doing calendar time.  I will have a whole post dedicated to what we do there.  I hope to work on that next week.

We also did some Fall dot art work with the twins.

Bella's was more difficult because she had to match the dot marker with the colored circled.  These activities are good for her because she is not very meticulous at things she does and she can have a tendency to rush things. So this slowed her down enough were she learned to take her time but not so much that it frustrated her.

Painting Fall pictures that helped teach them numbers...


















Coloring with crayons...

Then for learning as we play, Caiden has really been enjoying cars and building/stacking.  So with the cars we worked on colors and sang the color song of the car he was holding.  For blocks we worked really hard on making tall towers.  Good patience builder!

Resources:
http://www.3dinosaurs.com/printables/packs/fall.php

Disclaimer:

All photos of activities seen are just a moment in time in our day and the activity itself.  Don't be fooled, those happy smiles are not there the entire length of the activity.  We are real people here too, people who struggle with sharing, OCD, being tired, apathy and the like.  These photos are just to show what the activities are and a reminder to self of what we have done and where we have come.

Fall Fun Part 1

~Bella is 34 months~

~Caiden and Ada are 16 months~

So now that Fall is here, I have TONS of things to do with the kids from all my years teaching in daycare.  So I'm super excited to work on stuff with them :)

So what is fall without a little Pumpkin buying :)  We will hopefully be making it to a pumpkin patch soon, but for now we went to a local farmers market.  

Some of the Pumpkins were perfect for holding...

Some of the pumpkins were pretty Big!

So after seeing pumpkins we painted some!

Bella worked really hard at staying in the lines!

Then I had some pumpkin learning aids that we went over

Bella worked on a Pumpkin Learning Pack also.

Cutting practice

Letter P dot work.

Find letter P

What begins with P

Alphabet maze

Which is different

Counting and finding the corresponding number.  She then glued them on.

More Pattern work

Then we worked on listening skills and finding 1st, 2nd, etc.

Shadow Matching.

Pre writing practice.

What color is the Pumpkin Book.

How many Pumpkins.  I would put a number in the corner and
she would have to count the correct amount of pumpkins.

Then she did some Shape Matching

Then we got out the dot markers and worked on the colors Orange, Yellow and Red.  They also worked on taking turns as the dotted each color on their tree to make leaves.

And of course it sometimes is way more fun just to screw the cap on :)

Then we got out some Pom Poms and our new trays.

Then they each got a turn with the tweezers to manipulate the pom poms.

The we turned the trays over and stuck the pom poms in the trays that way!

Resources:

http://mamasmonkeys.blogspot.com/2012/10/3-day-freebie-pumpkin-patch-preschool.html

Disclaimer:

All photos of activities seen are just a moment in time in our day and the activity itself.  Don't be fooled, those happy smiles are not there the entire length of the activity.  We are real people here too, people who struggle with sharing, OCD, being tired, apathy and the like.  These photos are just to show what the activities are and a reminder to self of what we have done and where we have come.