Tot School ~ Pumpkins

Here are some of the activities that were on our tot trays this week...

Lovebug sorted our critters, by type (here ducks) and then by color. 

She worked on these Melissa and Doug shape puzzles...

She worked on this number puzzle... 

and this transportation puzzle (we had a big puzzle week, apparently). 

Yet another puzzle ;)

Working with our connectors (from Lakeshore). She loves sorting them by color... 

 We also took a fun trip to the pumpkin patch, where each child got to pick their own pumpkin. We had a great time :)

 The trip started with an educational intro on pumpkins...

Then we went on a hay ride and finally we got to pick our pumpkins..

Check out Carisa's blog to see what other tots have been up to this week... 

Preschool ~Pumpkins

Handwriting Practice...

We continue to move slowly through our handwriting practice. It isn't Smiley's favorite thing to do, so I am trying to keep it light and fun, mainly focusing on games. This week, we worked on the letter E again. We started by tracing our sandpaper letter E. 

We then did some letter E exercises from our Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) workbook... 

We assembled the letter E with our wooden pieces (part of HWT)... 

And we finally traced a few E's...

Reading...

Smiley continues to like his easy readers from our Hooked on Phonics Kindergarten pack. He learned a few new sight words this week and we practiced them through various games...

I put one of his sight words on his train track, and he had to read the word in order for the road block to be able to be lifted off... 

Pumpkin Theme...

Smiley has been really interested in pumpkins lately. So, we have been reading quite a few books about pumpkins, fall, and halloween. We also worked on several pumpkin printables from 2 Teaching Mommies. 

Making pumpkin patterns...

Labeling the parts of a pumpkin....

Measuring vines...

The highlight, of course, was a trip to the pumpkin patch (including hay ride) :)