September Highlights

September was packed full of fun and learning.

 We completed all of our Brown Bear Characters.  A few of each were added to the board.  These were done with patterns.  We practiced our cutting and gluing, following directions and reviewed colors and shapes.

We celebrated Aedan's birthday, our first birthday of the school year, with these super hero cupcakes.  The cupcakes from Morton's tasted as good as they looked!

Zero the Hero suprised us again with a treat on the 20th day of school.  Pinapple slices alway get mixed reviews so we learned about taking a bite, just to try it!

 

 

We also explored the work of Eric Carle.  We made our first following directions art project.  These are done without patterns.  The childen are just given squares for this project and we learn how to turn them into circles.  Then we glued them on from the back end of the caterpillars.  We alternated and overlapped the light and dark green circles and then added our red circle for the head.  We do a lot of these projects.  There is a lot of following directions and practice with directionality, sizes and shapes.

Firefighter Rob also stopped by to show us how he looks all dressed up in his uniform and to talk to us about Fire Safety.  The firefighters come and show the children their uniforms and gear to get them comfortable seeing them all covered up and to ease any fears if the children should ever have to see the firefighters during an emergency. 

Then they choose a volunteer to try out the gear!  Claire gladly gave it a try!

 

 

 Aedan and Joseph get to help Firefighter Rob carry his gear to the next classroom.