fall/leaves DAYHOME

here are a few activities from our leaves week

 

well this had nothing to do with leaves, but every little artist should have the chance to paint on a canvas!

 

 coloring leaves and doing leaf printing/rubbing

we went on a little scavenger hunt outside, and then brought our findings home to display in flower vases on the table. The bag of rocks did not make it home however....drop, drop, drop, rip.

leaves and such in the water table

 our collection

 blake painting his canvas

 Blake filling a vase

 

 of course we playing in the leaves! racked a big pile at the bottom of the slide, slid in it, rolled in it, buried each other in it, took pictures!

we also put leaves in the playdough, messy but fun!

cars- DAYHOME

not sure if I meant to add more to this post...just found it unpublished

a little late, but here is more of our car theme.  The drive thru posted earlier also went along with the car theme.

 car tracks in play dough, with city maps.

 this was a hit!  They came back to the play dough all week.

car track painting! This did not last long, took me longer to set it up and clean it up then they spent painting.

We also taped dye cut vehicles to straws, not sure how we ended up with this activity! I had a bunch of dye cut cars and well, that is what the children decided we should do with them!

dayhome-apples

well it's been a while, but we are going to give the blog thing a try again!

So out on a walk one day the children are collecting pine cones,  when I asked what they are going to do with them my day home child said something along the lines of, 'I'm going to dig them in the ground and they are going to grow into a big apple tree and everyone can pick my apples'

so planning a week around apples seemed like a good idea!
here is a little of what we did:

 forgot to rotate pictures again....anyway, here is our apple tree, the kids could add apples as they liked, they just love taping things so this was a fun activity!

 cutting apples for baking! there was A LOT of sampling going on!!

 apple print painting

 apple crumble pizza we made, oh so good!!

 here is an apple counting puzzle I made with fun foam and dye cuts

 apple college

 blake busy working!

 kayla on crazy hair day!

the finished apple tree colleges.  in an attempt to get the children more familiar with letters I have been printing a picture to go with each theme, and every lunch I point out the picture and talk about the letter.

and of course, apple smiles for snack!