Dramatic play area

Tammy created a beautiful tree for the children to use with the animals.

Our community tree

The teachers did the tree trunk bark rubbing. The morning class made handprint leaves. The afternoon class cut green leaves. The parents sent in the acorns and apples about their child.

Both classes were asked what they knew about trees and I created pictures of their answers and posted it around the tree.

What we know about trees
Owls live in trees
Squirrels live in trees
Monkeys live in trees
Birds live in trees
Flowers grow on trees
Acorns grow on trees
Birds nest are in trees
Leaves fall down
Apples, bananas, oranges, lemons grow on trees
Humans can cut down trees
Skin on trees = bark
Trees sway
Beavers cut down trees with their sharp teeth
Leaves grow on trees

Books

Here are the books for the rest of this week and next week.

Block area

You can do a variety of different building this month. There are animals, leaves, trees, wooden tree blocks, and arches. Or use the tubes, popsicle sticks and Pom poms to build a tree and balance the Pom Pom on top. Use the red caps and sticks to make an apple tree. Let your imagination build wild!

Manipulative shelf

Tall tower pegs, tinker toys, felt board book, magnet tiles, and train tracks. The children have loved the train tracks.

Science table

Matching tree bark pieces and leaves to their pictures

Math shelf

Lots of fun counting, sorting and making patterns.

Fine motor and puzzle shelf

Introducing mat man

Today the children met mat man. They worked together to create one mat man as a class.

Afternoon class

Here's our mat man

Morning class mat man

Today we met mat man. Then we each had a piece and together we built our own mat man.

Potty and hand washing sequences

Here are the potty and hand washing routines we use at school.