Fall

This week we have been focusing on the changing of the season. The weather changes and the trees start to look different. The leaves on the trees are changing colors and falling to the ground.  We asked the children to bring in leaves and we sorted them so many different ways: color, shape, and size.

 After sorting the different types of leaves we looked up the different names for the leaves in the book Awesome Autumn by Bruce Goldstone. 

We read Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert and made predictions of where Leaf Man was going to travel next in the book. As a fun art project the children created their own leaf man using leaves cut out from fall color construction paper. After assembling their leaf man they got to write where the wind was going to take him. This gave us an opportunity to have the children practice writing. 

   

Since the wind took Leaf Man to all kinds of interesting places we decided to next focus our attention on wind. We read The Wind Blew and we explained that when air moves it is called wind. Air is invisible to the human eye and impossible to feel until it moves. We asked the children to hold up a hand in front of their mouth and blow into it. This way they were able to feel the air.  We did a science experiment using straws and various objects, including: pom poms, leaves, Legos, a tissue, and a block. The children experimented, by blowing through a straw, to discover which items they were able to move with their breath (the wind) and which items they were unable to move. 

Lastly, we baked leaf shaped sugar cookies.

Painting Class

This week we focused on Andy Warhol. We specifically concentrated on his Marilyn Monroe series. We noticed that he used repetition and bright colors. We then created our own pop art work.