Maple Leaf Preschool: Fall animals

This week we talked about animals getting ready for the colder weather. We passed a ball around during circle time and each child told us something they knew about squirrels. Some of the answers included, "Squirrels eat nuts. They have furry tails. I see them in my yard." It might be fun to ask your child what they know about squirrels and see what they say! We watched several short videos on our class ipad about squirrels and learned that they collect nuts and berries to eat during the winter. We read The Very Busy Squirrel. This is a pattern book so the kids quickly caught onto the pattern and helped me "read"it. Learning patterns to stories and memorizing text is one of the first stages of reading...it's so exciting to see that all of the kids are doing this!! We went outside and looked for squirrels while we were playing but didn't see any...but we all decided that we're going to keep looking!! Other books we read this week included Ten Fat Turkeys and Bear Says Thanks. Something new we did was to hide cardboard turkeys around the room and the kids went on a turkey hunt to find them. The catch was that they had to find the turkey that had the first letter of their name on it. All of the kids did it! They wanted to do this all week long!! Thursday was show and tell and we had lots of great things that started with T!

Brooke brought in the snack this week. Thanks Brooklyn!!

Our Wednesday group. We went on a fall nature walk. We saw several flocks of geese flying overhead in the "V" shape. We saw apples in an apple tree, we noticed a lot of pretty colors on the trees, we felt the wind on our faces and watched as it blew down a lot of the leaves. Finn found seed pods in a tree and then we all found one on the ground to take home with us! We looked for squirrels again, but still didn't find any. Maybe the kids will see them at home!