Hello Preschool Families!

What a great week, with some beautiful Fall weather! The students and I have loved being outside this week!

One big thing I have introduced the students to this week is rhyming. I ask them to listen to how the words sound: Do the sound the same? Or different? They are doing well with this! We learned a few rhyming words like: Tree/Bee, Cat/Hat, and House/Mouse.

We have been doing a few Fall crafts as well and painted a Fall tree using broccoli to help us make the leaves. They thought this was super fun and silly!

Miss Callen has been doing a few science experiments with them this week as well! They have enjoyed seeing what happens when you mix baking soda and vinegar together, and they enjoy adding some color with food coloring as well! They have also been doing some art work by “painting” nails on paper. We have been filling up empty nail polish jars with washable paint and after tracing their hand on paper, will “paint” their nails on the paper.

This morning we went to Honey Haven Farm for our first field trip of the year! The students had fun starting their morning on the playground. After that, we went to Pumpkin School! Here we learned about the different types of pumpkins, how pumpkins grow, etc. We will also be learning more about this in the upcoming weeks at school. After Pumpkin School, we did a straw maze and saw some animals! The students then got to go on a hayride. Overall, it was a great morning!

Starting next week, we will begin to talk about pumpkins! How they grow, how they are the same/different, etc. We will do this for a few weeks. We will also start focusing on patterns. Remember, next week we only have school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We begin our Fall break on Thursday and will return to school on Tuesday October 10th.

I hope to see all of my students tomorrow at our Early Learning Center’s Fall Festival!

Have a great week 🙂

-Mrs. Heminger