Jack o Lantern

Today we made spiders with our thumbprints – counting to eight – four legs on each side We carved our pumpkin and put a light in it. He’s a Jackolantern […]

Collaboration

I don’t make children share but we do work a lot on collaborating. Learning to work beside each other is important.

Leaf Man

There was lot of leaf gathering today. Some very intentional with a game we played . We would use the leaves later. We read stories on the porch and even […]

Spookly The Square Pumpkin

This is one of my favorite reads of the season. It addresses diversity , bullying , shapes , colors and kindness. After reading the book we did a little science […]

Alphabet Pumpkin

You know that I don’t PLAN to directly teach letter recognition or sounds but if it comes up during play I’m all in And across the table – What letter […]

Measuring Pumpkins

Today we did a little math. How tall is each pumpkin ? Which pumpkin is the smallest ? Which pumpkin is the heaviest ? Curiosity through play leads to understanding.

Monster Pudding

First we had to draw the monster faces on the cups. Lucy and Avery did this for everyone. They did a great job. Next we used math skills to make […]

Name Building

Today we spent some time building our fine motor skills and working on our names. It’s important for a child ( going into kindergarten) to not only know how to […]

Environmental Print

Adding letters and numbers ( colors and shapes too) to our environment helps children learn foundation kindergarten readiness knowledge through play. These are our new fun playground features

Validation ❤️

We have a visitor each Thursday. She is a speech therapist. She is new to us. I enjoy her. She does her job the way it should be done in […]