Fall Mural

We are almost done with our fall mural. We have been working on different pieces of it over the last few weeks.
First, we painted construction paper Maple and Oak leaf shapes with orange, red, yellow and brown tempera.
Then we used sponge brushes and hands to paint with different shades of brown...


Then we put a large piece of paper on the floor with wide brushes and different shades of blue...

Finally, we glued the brown painted paper to the bottom of the blue sheet, added a bumpy, cardboard tree, and glued our painted leaves all over...

Here's what it looks like so far. We may call it finished and add it to our hallway gallery, or we may add some more components. Birds? Squirrels? Pumpkins? Birds and squirrels eating pumpkins, (as discussed during a recent, lively lunchtable conversation between the kids where everyone shared what happened to their Jack-O-Lanterns post halloween...)? Hmmmmm...Keep your eyes out to see what happens!

October

Hi there!

Even though this is our first post, we've been taking pictures for this curriculum blog since early October. In the interest of catching everyone up, here they are;

As you can see, we were thinking about bringing the colors and textures of the changing season indoors.

As October progressed, we began to prepare for our annual field trip to the pumpkin patch;

As October came to a close, we geared up for halloween! We added costume pieces to the dress up area and began working on a pumpkin Pinata for our celebration!

Luckily, we managed to make our pinata sturdy, yet breakable- not as easy as you would think! The kids enjoyed eating Pirate Booty and Raisins that fell out of the pumpkin for snack time.

We will continue to incorperate Autumn as a theme throughout the rest of the season. We are already seeing the kids interests go in different directions, so stay tuned to see where we wind up next!