Squirrel & Nuts

     I'm finally getting around to posting up last weeks pictures!  Crazy, busy time of the year!  I did not get to do as much as I would have liked with our theme this week, but there is always next year.

I came across the cutest little game on Amazon.  I think its called Squirrels & Acorns or Catch the Acorns.  The class loved it!  I'm going to put it out again next week because we didn't get to play it very long.  I love it because it covers colors, counting, sharing, and fine motor skills!

Fall Lacing Cards from Bonus Scholastic points.

Brought out the tree blocks again.  These are just fabulous!

Spider Counting Mats

We made these for our Fall Book to go along with our field trip.  We actually went on a hay ride!

This is another page for our Fall Book.  The squirrel was actually a little more challenging than I thought it would be.  They did turn out pretty cute though!

Popcorn Word book for the week

We went on a nature walk.  They had a sheet that had certain items that they needed to find while we were on our walk.  Here they were marking grass.  They loved it!

Here is a branch that needed to be marked off and put in the bag.

A leaf.  We were going to glue these on our acorns when we got back to the classroom, but we ran our of time!

They had to find a tree with leaves.

Cloud was one item that needed to be found, but as you can see, there is not a cloud in the sky!

We had a hard time finding acorns!  We finally found some!

We found berries for the animals to eat during the winter.

This is so funny!  Everyday they are stuffing their pockets with all kinds of nature items that they find out on the playground, so I gave each one of them a large grocery bag to fill until their heart was content.  They hardly put anything in the bags! LOL!  They were to busy on their hunt!  We were also looking for squirrels, but wouldn't you know it, we didn't see ONE squirrel!  Oh well, it was a lot of fun anyway!

Kinsey Farm Field Trip

     We had a fabulous, beautiful day at Kinsey Farm!  We were very worried because there was a chance of rain.  Fortunately, it held off until later in the afternoon!  It was the perfect day!

We went on a hayride.

We fed the fish.

The fish were huge!  There were catfish, brim, and crappie.

We learned about the horns on the goat.

The Petting Barn

Then we fed the goats!

We listed to a story about trees.

We learned about the different types of trees they grow on the farm.

We planted our own tree.

We all took a turn digging the dirt up for our tree.

It's hard work digging this dirt!

Once the hole was big enough, we put the tree in the dirt.  We had to loosen it up so the roots would have enough room to grown.

Then we put some special fertilizer around the tree.

We watered the tree so that it will be able to grow.

We had a picnic lunch before we went home.

Pumpkins- The End

     We had a very short week this week: no school on Monday and a field trip tomorrow.  We wrapped up a few things from last week and had a super short unit on Squirrels & Nuts.  I'm feeling a little stressed because we have to kick in high gear to prepare for our Thanksgiving feast!  Someone please tell me where this year has gone!!!

Letter of the Week

We have been working on a Fall book since the end of  September.  We are almost finished!  You can find the book here.  Michelle at Musings of Me has some awesome free printables!  

We still need to add the sentence with this.  They fingerprinted red and yellow paint to make an orange pumpkin..

This is another page for our Fall book.

We made the paper bag pumpkins for our Fall Festival last week.  We put our scarecrow page in the pumpkin that will go in our book now that the festival is over. :)

We did our pumpkin glyphs last week during centers, but we still needed to analyze our data.

They love working in the floor!  I had this on a chart and then they filled out their own individual pages.

This is one of our class pumpkins Jack.  We read the book Pumpkin Jack (forgot to take a picture of the book!) and now we are going to see what happens to our Pumpkin Jack.

This is our other class pumpkin Bert.  We put soil and water inside of Bert and now we are going to observe what happens.

We are keeping a Science journal of Jack and Bert.

Tomorrow is our field trip, so I will put pictures up from that tomorrow night.  I'll put our Squirrel & Nut activities also up sometime this weekend.  We finally finished our Moses books, so I will also get those up soon!