Fall Family Festival

Thanks for a fantastic Fall Family Festival!

A Cold, Brisk Friday!

It was a cold Friday morning, but all our turtle friends were so happy to be at school!

Our morning consisted of making birthday cakes with blocks, 

teaching some of our friends how to play our new game from yesterday,

eating dinner at Madigan's house,

and reading books to our babies.

We even started an art project and created a collage with different types of papers and shapes!

The turtles were able to identify all the different shapes they added to their collage.

During choice time, we built a variety of structures, 

and finger painted. 

We soon discovered that yellow, red, and white create the color of the sun! 

Some friends wrote their names with their fingers.  After seeing their name written in front of them in such a new and different way, it was clear how proud they were of themselves when seeing their smiling faces!

Our morning, did not stop there.  Rocket ships were formed with our all time favorite magnatiles, 

read books in the warm sun, 

performed a puppet show about being able to have more than one friend,

went searching for our babies up on the climber,

worked with our friends to complete a number puzzle,

and finally finished off our morning with balancing ourselves around the sandbox.  It was interesting to see our friends maintaing such good balance as they moved their bodies from left to right!

A Show and Much More!

Our morning started off with a variety of things!  We played a new game that helped us learn our shapes.  When it was someone's turn, the lever was pulled and a shape would roll out for a child to take and place on their game board. Some shapes included, stars, octagons, ovals, and squares!  Not only were we learning our shapes, we were also practicing how to take turns!

Our fun did not stop there.  We built beautiful structures

and rocket ships that held cars inside with our magnatiles.

We told stories to one another with "Scary Sid",

sang and danced to our favorite songs,

built a tower with blocks that was as tall as us, 

and painted with 3 different colors of blue, green, and white.

During choice time, we decided to finger paint with yellow, red, and white.  It was fun creating different patterns and making different letters with our fingers!  Madigan even made an "M" for her name and Gabby made an "M" for mommy!

In the block area, Jacob did not waste any time!  As he meticulously piled the blocks on top of one another, he created this!

We then met with Jenny and sang our opening songs: "Hello Neighbor" and "Name, Name What's Your Name"

Our next song, "Animal ABC", had all of us using our bodies to act like different animals.  We roared like bears, waddled like penguins, and slithered like snakes!

Jenny finally brought out a special surprise at the very end.  It was one of our favorite books called "The Little Old Lady Who was Not Afraid of Anything".  We were so excited to see that Jenny had the same book we've been reading in our classroom!  She even taught us a special way to read the book with a lovely tune.

After music, we visited the logs once again to see if they had changed.

We then did a little climbing in our bear tree when Carol from the little frogs class invited the turtles to come watch a slide show!  The turtles were very excited about the show and rushed on back inside.

The show consisted of the little frogs and their on-going project on sticks.

They watched intently as they saw all the different kinds of sticks and how they can be used in a variety of ways!