Mrs. Rachel's Three's Class: Pumpkin, Pumpkin!

We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for the generous Trike-a-Thon donations! We are already enjoying some new additions in our classroom and in our school! We are also looking for some new exciting learning tools that will be arriving in our room in the next two weeks!

This week was also filled with lots of pumpkin fun! We definitely missed everyone over fall break and had an exciting first week back to school.

Everyone enjoyed learning about how pumpkins grow and what's inside a pumpkin. We read several pumpkin books that focused on the life cycle of a pumpkin and the physical characteristics of a pumpkin. Did you know some pumpkins can be blue?! We even got to see inside one, carve one, and taste pumpkin seeds this week! Maybe they can feel the pulp themselves if your family carves a pumpkin together at home!

To go along with our pumpkin theme, we used shapes to create our own paper Jack-o-lanterns. We also used pumpkins to review the letters we have done so far (M, F, P, Z, E, and A). Our poem of the week was "Five Little Pumpkins." You can check your child's poetry folder to do this fun poem together!

In our centers this week, we enjoyed counting pumpkin seeds, working on shape matching with pumpkin cutouts, working on our cutting skills to make a pumpkin puzzle, and practicing tracing with pumpkin vines. We also had a grand time hammering golf tees into our pumpkin and checking to see if pumpkins sink or float. We even did a fun pumpkin candy science experiment!

We did a few things to review fire safety to follow the firemen coming before fall break. Here is the link to our fun song if you want to do it again with your child! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_5FqaWTj9c

Our Bible focus was on Daniel. This month, we are focusing on how we do not have to fear because God is always with us! Make sure to check out our fun October song about our Bible theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzJ8qcOBVhM

We can't wait to see them next week for more fall fun!

This week, see if your child can...
1. Create his or her own Jack-o-lantern with the pumpkin project paper we sent home.
2. Paint or carve a jack-o-lantern face that includes squares, circles, and triangles. (Review these shapes.)
3. Practice the "Five Little Pumpkins" poem together.
4. Look for the letters M, F, E and P in books around the house.
5. Tell you the story of Daniel!