Letter F; Spiders!

Busy working on letter F this week... I loved the dot idea I came across to help them write the letter F. 

 

Spookey the Square Pumpkin

We went on a Autumn Scavenger Hunt since it was beautiful outside!

 Love the little footprint monsters:)

Our Funshine project this week was to lace around the plate to make a spider web and then add a spider ring to finish it off! I thought they could grasp the concept of this a little better than what they did, but it proved to be a little hard for them, I guess we will need to work on lacing a little more:)

  

Something that I love about Funshine is the extra worksheets you can print off from the website for extra's. They are great fillers for when we need a little something else to work on!

We took a golf ball instead of a marble (as suggested by Funshine) and they had fun shaking the box every which way to make our spider webs

The Itsy Bitsy Spider on the flannelboard

A game from Funshine, we had to match up the lines from the web to the spider

We made our own version of spiders to hang up for decorations! 

Letter E

Here's our E we made... we decided E is an easy letter, one line down and 3 lines across! 

Our letter E projects, letter E journal page from Funshine; E-Elephant and letter E dobber

We played our Community Helper game from Funshine, we had to match up the hats to the picture

We used Funshine's fall felt set today. 

One stuffed scarecrow in the corn rows. On the first day he said, "Go away crows!" 

On the second day he said, "On my head I wear a hat."

On the third day he said, "By my feet sits a cat."

On the fourth day he said, "I see a tractor with a plow."

On the fifth day he said, "Time to go now."

One stuffed scarecrow in the corn rows, moving left and right as the fall wind blows.

We pounded golf tees into a pumpkin... they loved it!

Ghosts, Chefs, 4, D, Clowns

A little Halloween fun! Found this freebie from Laura @TPT

Aren't these little chef's adorable?!! We made chef hats from Funshine and then of course, had to make cookies to go with our hats... yummy! The hats were super simple to make and I will have to remember for the next time we do a chef theme, we took paper and stapled it to fit their heads; then took a piece of tissue paper and made it into a mushroom shape and then stapled it to the hat. Of course, after stapeling, I took tape and covered up the staples on the inside. 

Here was our clown bibs from Funshine... they had a blast using the pippets filled with liquid water color. (If you haven't used liquid water color yet, your missing out! It's awesome and you can do tons of things with it, I especially love using it to color playdough or items for the sensory table!)

For letter Dd, we made donuts with sprinkles (which was the best part!) and also worked in our Funshine journals. 

We did try on various types of hats, as was suggested in Funshine and acted out what we would do with each hat on. 

Number 4 in our Funshine Journal from last week. I choose to have them glue on 4 orange triangles. (color and shape we are on!)

Fire Prevention

We took a trip to the Fire Station last week and seen how the firemen looked with all their gear on, got to climb in the firetrucks and even try on the coat and pants! I think their favorite part was climbing in the trucks:)

 

I set this up last week for dramatic play, they had tons of fun with it!

Our fire trucks from Funshine; who knew you could make a fire truck with just a rectangle shape and then cut the back off for the ladders, which we used a paper straw for. 

We even practiced having a fire drill! 

Hats!

As suggested in Funsine, we explored the different textures as part of science. Were they smooth, rough, hard, pokey, scratchy, soft, etc... Then we also played a gross motor game that Funshine suggested where we had to throw bean bags into the hats. 

We went on an orange hunt! 

Worked a little bit in our Funshine journals... I just love this one, we've been working on writing the first letters of our names. Here, she wrote a T without even being asked to write one! 

Our cute triangle people from Funshine

We also made jester hats from Funshine, pretty easy, we cut a piece of paper in a zigzag shape and then colored them, stapled to the correct size and then they added their dot stickers. 

It was time to break out the Halloween projects! We made these adorable stained glass witches that I found here. 

End of Apples

We ended our Apples theme and first month with Funshine Express. I will say that overall, I think we did way more than what we would have done if I would have planned things on my own! Love the songs, extra worksheets that can be printed online, extra activities, etc... Looking forward to October's themes! 

For fine motor skills, I made some trees and laminated them, then we used red playdough to make our apples

To end our apple theme, we made these apples from TPT. 

10 Apples Up On Top; Apple Orchard

10 Apples Up On Top!

We read the Book 10 Apples Up On Top, and took our pretend apples to see if we could balance an apple on our heads or not. Then we cut out a picture of ourselves and stacked 10 apples on top of our heads. 

Here's a fun You Tube video of 10 Apples Up On Top

Apple Orchard

We took a field trip on Friday to Holmberg's Orchard. Johnny Appleseed gave us a tour and we learned about apples from him, how many apple trees they have at the orchard, what kinds of apples they have, most apples have 10 seeds and how when you can see the star when you cut them the opposite way, how they pick the apples, why they keep them cold, how they wash/sort the apples. We even sang Happy Birthday to him!  

Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed! We made our Johnny Appleseed hats from Funshine

Little People Haunted House!

Just had to share the Little People Haunted House I did over the weekend. I took an old Little People house, washed it up and wiped it down with paint thinner. Then applied plastic spray paint primer followed by black spray paint. Once that dried, I took paint markers and decorated it up. Sprayed a clear coat of spray paint ove the top of that and let it dry. Followed by some felt stickers and misc. Halloween stickers I picked up over the weekend.