Our lessons are making us excited for all the fall things but the weather is saying N.O! It’s in the 80’s all week here. How’s the early fall weather where you live?
BOOK OF THE DAY AND STEAM ACTIVITY
Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
This cute little story just might convince your early reader to swap their candy for a veggie, and maybe that veggie could be corn! I don’t know about your kids, but when Lane was still a baby, he loved veggies of all kinds. He’s become pickier about them in the last couple years though, so I like to make them fun. Research has suggested that engaging your kids while trying vegetables can help them brave the waters. Ask them questions. How does it look? What color is it? What does it smell like? Playing with your food can actually benefit your kid’s food choices. So make a snack look like something familiar. A forest of broccoli trees in snowy ranch or a bell pepper and cracker sun.
Play With Your Food Playdough Corn Cobs
We started our week learning all about corn and since playdough is one of Lane’s favorite preschool tools, we decided to make playdough corn cobs. We revisited our lesson on rolling the playdough into a ball shape by making small, yellow corn kernels. After we rolled enough and gathered them into a cob shape, we rolled out green caterpillars. That’s what Lane likes to call them. We made long green pieces and then flattened them by smashing! These became the husk. Then we pieced everything together and it survived just long enough to snap a photo before Lane smashed that too.
Supplies Needed
- Yellow and green playdough
SING-A-LONG
Learn The Alphabet With Blippi
Instead of a four minute song, we watched a forty minute video about the alphabet. Lane loves Mr. Blippi videos and I’ll be honest, it was nice keeping him entertained for an extended time so I could relax a little. But don’t tell him that or he will suddenly stop liking Mr. Blippi!
HANDS ON LEARNING AND WORKSHEET
Scissor Practice and Corn Mazes
Another lesson we revisited today was cutting with scissors. We focused on holding them in one hand and Lane actually made a few snips with that method. A simple idea I found on Pinterest came in handy. Take a sheet of construction paper and make narrow slits on one half to look like hair. Then give this to your child to play haircut. It turned into more of a face cut, sever the head game for us, but Lane had fun.
We pulled out our numbered pumpkin puzzle from last week and practiced some number matching. We also used our alphabet flashcards from the September week 4 day 1 lesson and sang the ABC song. Then we finished with another tracing worksheet. This one was a little more challenging because it included actual shapes to trace and a few letters.
Click here for the Pumpkin Number Puzzle.
Click here for the Corn Maze Tracing worksheet.
CRAFT CORNER
TP Corn Cobs
Another fun corn cob craft helped us review our newly learned corn cob part names. We painted toilet paper rolls yellow to look like cobs. We coated them in gold glitter for a little pizazz. Then we used leaf shapes made from green construction paper to be our husk. Last was the silk, the brown stringy stuff out of the top of a cob. We used brown construction paper cut into thin strips, the same way we did our haircut characters.
Supplies Needed
- Empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls
- Green construction paper
- Brown construction paper
- Yellow paint
- Paint brushes
- Glue
- Glitter
- Scissors
Ember + Pine 