FALL!!

Ah autumn is in the air, and while the leaves are turning and the air is cooling your children are learning! Today as we were counting down the final days of summer you could just see the anticipation growing as we got closer and closer to Saturday, our first day of fall! So, of course we decided there were no better colors to study then those that we see falling from our trees. To start off our Wednesday morning we opened our crayon boxes and put our reds and yellows to work. Shying away from the word fall for a while we turned our attention to all the things around us that are red and yellow. Each student completed their very own book of red and yellow things that included a heart, bus, banana, stop sign, corn on the cob, and lips. While making our pictures into an actual book I had the pleasure of working one on one with some of the children on how to use their scissors ( my goal is that by Christmas everyone will be able to work a scissors on their own). Next we went back to our fall centered lessons and listed off everything that we are able to do this time of year that we can’t in all the other seasons.  Together our list amounted to jumping in leaf piles, visiting pumpkin patches and apple orchards, eating pumpkin pies and my personal favorite celebrating Halloween and Thanksgiving (or better known in their minds; Turkey Day).  Next we moved on to our bigger craft of the day and made the most adorable wind socks! The kids really had fun gluing all the colorful leaves on and getting to see how a bunch of little things can turn out to make such a cool project! They even asked if that could hang there wind socks outside for everyone to see but then had to be reminded that they were made of paper, and the wind and rain probably wouldn’t be very kind to their wonderful masterpieces. Once our windsocks were all put together and everyone was situated we all went onto creating our flashy bracelets, sticking with our red and yellow patterns of course! The kids were pretty eager to show off their colorful new accessories to one another. I thought this was pretty cute especially because everyone’s was exactly the same, Ha-ha. As we completed the last few details of our project we all had the joy of singing along to the fun little book Kelsey brought along to share called “The leaves are falling one by one.” I was amazed how well everyone began to chime in on the silly song once they got the flow of the pattern of the book. Overall we had quite a successful day here at Mary’s!  My only hope is there energetic attitudes continue on throughout the year!
Thanks for reading! Now, get outside! It’s a beautiful, beautiful day!