Highlights:
We started our week going to Washington Market Park, during our visit we saw many interesting and creative pumpkins! We saw a stroller with a baby pumpkin inside, some pokey hair pumpkins along with Tin man! Our friend Antoine made sure to weave hi and bye.
Making our Jack-O-Lantern:
We also carved our pumpkin this week! Our friends were really excited to look inside the pumpkin some children scooped the guts and seeds out with spoons while others used their hands. While doing this we observed the pumpkins seeds and their guts very carefully. The children enjoyed the feeling of the guts so much that we decided to incorporated the seeds into our light table. Our friends helped put the seeds inside a ziploc bag and tape the bags! This activity was great for sensory exploration and to help strengthen our fine motor skills.
Children also explored black and white paint! We displayed a poster board with back and white paint on it only, we didn’t display any paint brushes or other materials. Children were then encouraged to explore the poster board. Our friends were very interested and engaged making different prints on the poster board by tapping it, rubbing the paint, and making different lines with their fingers.
Halloween:
Wednesday was such a fun day, once again thank you all so much for joining us during our parade and party!
Our friends also decided to name our pumpkin! The children came up with the name “baba” and sang to baba during our morning meeting!
Our friends tried out t a new kind of paint, sand-paint! The children were really excited and involved through this process, we first asked children to squeeze paint into a container after this children had the opportunity to pour sand. We then mixed these two materials with either a spoon and/or hands and children were then encouraged to explore! When dry, the sand paint leaves an interesting texture behind.
Once again thank you all so much for joining us during our parade and your participation in our party!
Have a great weekend!