Orange, Green, Pink and Purple

Holy Moly I have a lot of pictures this time and so I am just going to share a few of the things we did the last week.  It has been so much fun seeing the kids coming to school wearing the color of the day. And they are so excited!

Orange Day

We read the book Pumpkin Hill.  After reading the book we got out a real pumpkin and they got to feel the outside of it and feel how heavy it was. I also asked the kids what was inside the pumpkin. They all yelled out "seeds"! Except for one little girl who told us there are pumpkin brains inside! (Now you know :) ) I cut it open so we could see the inside and feel how squishy and slimy it felt. They got to make their own pumpkin and glue lots of seeds on it.

Practicing our cutting skills

Finished product! Although he added some legs to his pumpkin after I took the picture. 

If you're looking for a yummy fall treat try this pumpkin pie shake recipe. 

1/2 cup pumpkin puree
3/4 cup vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup milk
1 to 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream (more if you like it that way)
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. nutmeg

Mix it all up and then enjoy your pumpkin pie as a milk shake.

Green Day

We talked about the primary colors we learned last week and then had some fun mixing them to make new colors. 

Orange, purple and green

After this we read the book Where is the Green Sheep? I loved this book! It had so many funny pictures and the kids loved trying to find the green sheep. We made our own green sheep by gluing on cotton balls and then coloring the cotton with markers. You can also use a dry tempera powder paint to dye your cotton balls but I was all out. We re-read the book and used our sheep as puppets to make them act out the book. They had fun making their sheep blow in the wind, slide down a slide, and lots of other stuff. 

Pink Day (pig day)

What a fun day! We watched the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs". I have the book but the short film is so silly and the kids love the songs that go with it. 

We also talked about why pigs love to roll in the mud to help them cool off. They got to make their own muddy pig out of brown paint and shaving cream. My room smelt so good! 

We made pig cupcakes for cooking. The were delicious. I made strawberry cupcakes the night before and then they got to decorate them. The frosting was pink lemonade flavor. Yum! Yum! 

Purple Day

Whenever I think of purple I think of royalty and fancy clothes. Don't ask me why?  :) So we made purple crowns and they loved decorating their names with glitter glue. We also played a game called purple cow. Basically, it started off being the first person to make a noise was the purple cow and got to hold the stuffed animal. Well very quickly they all wanted to be the purple cow so they all started making noise. :) We changed the game to be the last person to not smile or laugh got to be the Purple Cow. This was so much fun and we all couldn't stop laughing. 

We also made a Purple Cow Drink: 

Grape Juice, Milk, and Vanilla Ice Cream mixed together in the blender. The kids LOVED it! 

Hope you are all having a great month! I can't believe how quickly it has gone by. I sure love teaching your kids. 

Another year of fun and laughing!

First day of school! 

Here is part of our Tuesday/Thursday class. We were missing a couple. 

 And of course a silly face picture.

We talked a lot about friends and rules today. They got to make a little paper doll look like themselves. We talked about putting on all the parts of our face like eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, hair, ears. I love how some of them turned out so cute. One little girl made her nose look like a music note. I loved it!

We also made a friendship fruit salad. We talked about how fruit looks and taste different, just like our friends look different. We compared all the different hair colors in our class, and how some are taller than others, some wear glasses, some have pets, and we like different things too. We added all of our different fruits and then I tried to add a rotten banana. The kids all yelled "no" when I pulled it out. I told them that it is hard to like someone who isn't always nice and a good friend, sort of like how the banana is rotten and we don't want to add it to our salad. It is funny how much they remember that banana. The last few times we have had class they always talk about that banana and how they are going to be nice to their friends.

Color Week! We learned our primary colors this week.

Having fun with file folder games, and practicing our colors.

Blue Day
Looking for blue lizards, snakes, and animals in the bean table.

 Making Blue Bugs out of our letter B.

This one was a spider with it's 8 legs.

I love these Scholastic letter books that my mother in law gave me. They are so interactive with the kids and have lots of funny pictures.

Math practice: We worked on counting and addition this week. We also practiced grouping and comparing using the words most and least.

Yellow Day:
We played a game that is sort of like Freeze Dance. I would play music while the kids were dancing around. After I paused the music they had to run and find something in the room that was yellow.

We had fun painting a yellow picture with Yellow peppers, Lemons and Corn on the Cob.

Having fun in the dress up box.

Red Day: or basically watermelon day.
We learned the song Down By the Bay and talked about rhyming words. They love this song and how silly it is.
We measured a watermelon, counted how many stripes were on it, and checked to see if watermelons sink or float.
We also, painted our own watermelons and added real watermelon seeds.

This little guy said it was a rotten watermelon. (like I said, they really seem to remember that rotten banana.)   :)

We also made a watermelon slushy that I made a couple years ago. It was a lot better this year because I  added more lime sherbet this time. You can find the recipe on the side bar of the blog under watermelon week if you want to make it.

It was a great first week and I am loving these kids! Just a reminder that book orders are due this coming Thursday. I forgot to pass them out to the kids that come only on Wednesday so I will be giving them to you soon. Sorry about that.