Pumpkin and piggies painting

We are on day four of this week. Spent the lovely morning eating our usual Thursday chick- fil- a morning snack, but this time picnicking in the park. All three kiddos need to be outside running and yelling not confined to chick- fil- a play area. Yes the crazies were out ( lol!) We had lots of fun playing with new treasures ( J.), dancing down the steps to the music ( older A.), and playing with a new girl friend ( little A.)! Park play ended with rolling down the hill and dancing their way up.
We had our pumpkins from pur pumpkin patch adventure yesterday and the girls would not let me forget the last part, painting them. J was gone this afternoon so we decided on Halloween pedicures because that's what girls do with out boys around, right? Paint piggies.! And we ended with the great painting of our tiny pumpkins. This was done outside so clean up was easy breezy!

Pumpkin patch fun!

Today was such a great day with beautiful fall weather. We had so much fun at our little local pumpkin patch. All of the kids love climbing on them and seeing which ones they can lift. Most of the time was spent with each child picking thru all of the tiny pumpkins for our decorating on Friday! They had three baskets full so the choice was very hard. Pumpkin picking was a blast!

P and pumpkin painting

Halloween is almost here. It's a week away so the letter of the week is P and pumpkins are the theme. Wednesday we will be visiting the local pumpkin patch. This mornings activity was decorating your pumpkin with the letter P. It was fun seeing how they placed the 4 letter Ps to represent the eyes, nose, and the mouth on their pumpkin. Each one would say look at my pumpkins face! Naming each part, no direction needed. We went on to a little science lesson mixing yellow and red paint to make orange. Each kiddo got a Dixie cup and a paint brush. I put one squirt or each color and they mixed. J said add more red to make it more orange. Little A said me too but I will do it, lol! They made their own shade of orange and painted away.

Fall week 2 lesson plan

Brookeside in home Daycare

Lesson Plan

Week: October 7, 2013                       Theme: Fall finds

                        Letter: F                      

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Morning Meet	Letter F- Sight and Sound	Discuss Four Seasons	In fall the weather is…and plants begin to…	__	Week review
Outdoor Play	Water color painting	Ball hop	Hop Scotch with letters	__	How many acorns did you find?
Free Play	Flash card letter match	__	Light box letter F tracing	__	Letter F worksheet
Literacy/  Language	Song: Boogaloo	Book: Fenton the Frog	__	Song: Mr. Sun	__
Daily Activity	Water color painting outside	Toilet paper roll color bowling	__	__	Light box: Numbered leaf math

 

All activities are altered based on age of each child

 

Notes to Parents: The month of October will be all about Fall. October 31 is Halloween we will be having a costume party with snacks and games.

 

Art and Nature

We are a little behind what our lesson plan says for the week. One of the important things that I have learned in the last 2 1/2 years of having a home daycare is be flexible. That is the beauty of the home environment you can teach and they still learn even when your schedule is altered. So this morning was so nice and cool. We headed out finding much more to add to our letter C collage. We even found a weed which Mr. B was spending his morning pulling but we were enjoying. I no nothing about plants of even the names of weeds but one in particular held all of our attention. When you touched it the leaves folded into the stem where you touched it ( amazing). J was so excited that he found this so we spent a lot of time hunting for more before Mr. Ben pulled them. Little A sticks to her mission when she is given one. She was determined to fill her bag with "pretty" leaves, flowers, and acorns for the letter C collage. Mission completed! Older A arrived and we began our story, C is for Coco. Older A went on a little letter C letter hunt around our classroom while I was cutting out the letter C, finding glue, and a paint brush. For the collage I poured glue on the letter C and they took turns spreading it with a paint brush. Little A likes to group items together right now so cat tails (plant) together, leaves together, and acorns stayed together. Both A's love art work and love to be creative. Placement and movement of the objects required focus, I could see it in their face. This was a success Older A was sitting at the table eating afternoon snack and says "Aunt B (my nickname) I made a letter C." THey never stop amazing me!

It's Fall

This time of the year is so great. We love to be outside and more kids begin to come outside and play on the playgrounds. We pack up all of our stuff for the morning lesson and head outside. This morning we headed to the park in hopes to find items that show us fall is here. Older A loves doing this she ran out into the open field next to the playground naming each item she found asking " Is this ok?" . Little A headed to the pavilion to look at a dove that was drinking water and J was "climbing" a tree to get acorns. Little A decided to get out the chalk and we began to draw. Older A brought over her findings and gave each of us a leaf. So little A began tracing them with her chalk. We made a fall tree with our leaves we traced.
We had to bring a little of the wonderful things we find outside this time of the year into our classroom. The kids helped me color leaves and cut them out to make a numbered fall tree. Today we just reviewed the numbers and colors. I was very proud of J today he began pointing to the correct number as I said them. I was counting down from 10 to 1. Of course with J I have to look out of the corner of my eye and watch without a word until he is done. If I interrupt or say great job he starts fumbling and seems to become very distracted. The girls were naming the colors and counting the leaves on our classroom tree.
Cheers to great weather making it a great great Monday!

Lesson Plan: Fall colors

Brookeside in home Daycare

Lesson Plan

Week: September 16, 2013                Theme: The Colors of Fall

                        Letter: C                     

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Morning Meet	Letter C- Sight and Sound	Words that say C.	__	__	Week review
Outdoor Play	Look for items that are color of fall	__	Counting ball bounce	__	Letter C treasure hunt
Free Play	Leaf color/ number match	__	Light box letter F tracing	__	Letter C worksheet
Literacy/  Language	Book: Colorful Leaves	Song: Singing in the rain.	__	Book: C is for Coco	__
Daily Activity	Collect fall colored items outside	Letter C, Fall collection collage	Leaf tracing	__	Painting with cars

 

All activities are altered based on age of each child

 

Notes to Parents: The month of October will be all about Fall. October 31 is Halloween we will be having a costume party with snacks and games.