I LOVE sensory tables. . .part of the reason we have Fun Friday is so I can bust out these tables and let the kids run wild. This past week I put out two fall sensory tables. One had "Fall Soup" (water, food coloring, leaf confetti, sparkles, and spoons) and the other table had "Fall Slime" (all sorts of ingredients but I'll put the link to the originally intended ingredients at the end haha). Surprisingly, the boys were way more into it than the girls this time. There are many recipes for slime, but I've learned it turns out differently every time, making it fun to allow the kids to help experiment with it by adding various amounts of ingredients. Until you are brave enough to do that, I would stick to a simple slime recipe such as in the following link.
https://teachingmama.org/fall-slime-recipe/
Monday, November 6, 2017
Fall Tables
Thursday, November 2, 2017
AB Pattern
To open our Thanksgiving Theme, we had our students use an AB pattern to make the tails on their turkeys! This was our second lesson on an AB pattern. Some students mastered the skill, while others need more practice. They enjoyed it over all.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Kids can Bake too!
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Hands On Math
Today we had our students find the area of fall leaves using non-standard units. I explained that area means finding out how big the space on the inside is. After they filled up their leaves with counters, we had them individually count them out loud, watching for one-to-one correspondence. Then we wrote in their journals what the area of the leaves were and they glued in the leaves and colored them. They did a great job!
Friday, October 20, 2017
Pumpkin Exploration
Today for Fun Friday we focused on pumpkins since we are wrapping up our Pumpkin Patch Theme. My station was at the water tables. One table was filled with slices of a big pumpkin and the other table was filled with small pumpkin halves. I read a short pumpkin story before letting them explore. The boys really enjoyed splashing each other by dropping the small pumpkin halves into the water. Both groups enjoyed collecting the floating pumpkin seeds. We focused on the words float and sink. It was a success!