Legos

This class of Bunny Rabbits is particularly taken with Legos.  Anytime we offer them we find a crowd around the tray.  Legos are so open ended that they are of interest to both genders and any age, but usually there are some in every class that are super interested and some that are indifferent.  Not this year!  It's very exciting!!

Stone Soup

Each year right around Thanksgiving, we take the opportunity to read Stone Soup and make our own soup in class.  Stone Soup is a wonderful story and the version we read, by Jon Muth, depicts the most delicate and lovely landscapes.

Each child brought an ingredient for the soup and got to add it to the big soup pot.

They poured and stirred and smelled the soup.  And YES, we even added a stone.
Don't worry, parents.  We thoroughly washed the stone!  (Don't you love that tongue!)

The soup cooked while we were on the playground.  When we came in from playing, we all sat down together and had the soup.  Most people really liked our soup, and only two didn't try it.  Yay!

Super Snake

Isn't this the cutest snake you have ever seen?

We talked about reptiles and used some old playdough to make snakes.  The children used beans and pasta and seeds to make the patterns on the backs of the snakes, and this snake even got a face.

Getting Wild

Everybody likes learning about and playing with wild animals.  Luckily we have plenty of resources at SLC to feed children's interests in animals.

The story of Elmer is one that many children recognize, and it is fun to watch children begin to understand humor through books.  The Bunnies got to make their own version of Elmer by first coloring a habitat and then decorating an elephant shape with colored paper.

Each Elmer looked different and really reflected the personality of its little creator.

It's so easy to link animals and literacy because in addition to jillions of animal books, there are jillions of animal songs.

The Bunnies loved singing and dramatizing the Five Little Monkeys with props.  I love that you can see little hands in motion in this picture. :)

Pumpkin Play

At our school we really don't talk much about Halloween, but we do talk about pumpkins.  Pumpkins, along with many other fruits and vegetables, are plants God made for us. 

We had a number/numeral matching game where the children had to match the number of pumpkin seeds on one pumpkin to its corresponding pumpkin with the correct numeral.  Notice this Bunny using her finger to touch each seed as she counted.

We had an opportunity for non-standard measuring by seeing how many pumpkins tall each child was.  (To our surprise this was very interesting to the children so we will do it again with something else as our standard in the weeks to come.)

Measuring was a great opportunity for counting and recording each child's height in pumpkins on a chart.

We also baked our own pumpkin muffins. Yum!  They smelled really good and most children were brave enough to try them.  :)