Ms. Harmony loves all the fun changes that fall brings! There is so much to do and enjoy! This post shares some of the ways we've been actively learning about fall.
Apples are ripe and ready to eat! We not only tasted apples, we learned about the parts of apples, and made beautiful apple prints.
We used scented rice, funnels, bottles, and acorn toys in the Explore Table. This smelled amazing!
We built homes for fuzzy forest friends and made sure they had plenty to eat! Fall is an important time for animals in the forest because soon they will face food and shelter scarcity during winter.
We colored leaf prints by taping the paper on top of the leaf and doing rubbings with crayon.
We cooked with acorns we gathered and sand.
We noticed that the weather got cold, and so did the water in our table outside! We changed the materials from water play to bubbles!
We shook up sensory bottles with googly eyes, bugs, and bands!
We sorted bears into "families" which helped us practice color identification, size and color differences, and counting skills.
We applied our knowledge of fall leaves and forest animals by painting a forest scene in fall and telling a story about the animals that live there. They were looking for food, building homes, getting camouflaged, etc.
It always seems like a race to do all the fun stuff each day. I wish that the preschool hours could STRETCH out so we could pack more into the program... so I leave it with you at home to keep up the fall celebrations. :)
