This week the infant-b students carved their classroom pumpkin and painted their individual white pumpkins!

Painting Pumpkins: 

Before painting their white pumpkins, the students explored them- gently rubbing their hands across the pumpkin's smooth, rippled skin.

The children showed interest by mouthing the hard pumpkins and rolling them across their work stations.

As soon as the students were offered the orange paint and gold glitter, they seemed less enthusiastic about their pumpkins and more interested in the shiny, wet materials!

Understandable! Paint and glitter is fascinating and eye-catching!

The infants used their hands and fingers to experience the chilly, wet, shiny textures on their slick pumpkin skin. It made the pumpkins SO slippery and hard to grasp onto!

Excellent painting, infant-b students!

Circle Time: A wonderful way to enhance social skills, communication and build friendships.

During circle time the students are now shaking hands!

As we sing our "Good Morning" song, the students become very excited- patiently waiting for their turn, to shake their teacher's hand. .

Great job, friends!

Our good morning song is a great way to bring awareness to the children- bringing awareness to their names, their friend's names, their teacher's names and now it is also bringing awareness to their bodies.

Perfect handshakes, everyone!

 

A Birthday Gift for Daddy!

For her daddy’s birthday, Teagan made him a beautiful canvas painting!

Textured ball painting!

The students have always shown an interest in balls of any kind. A delighted grin spreads upon their faces each time they manipulate the round, bouncy, slightly unpredictable wonder. 

When the provocation was placed in the middle of the classroom floor, it was interesting to see the students automatically go for the paint, as if the balls were not there. The explorers grasped at the bright paint colors, using their pointers to poke at the wet puddles. They are clearly paint experts now and know just what to do!

After a short while, our little sensory experts started to notice the round, bumpy balls and began trying to pick them up with their wet, colorful hands.

As the textured balls slipped from hand to hand, the balls bounced and rolled onto the brown paper.

With each drop and roll, the round bumpy balls left behind beautiful imprints and trails on the paper!

Thank you, infant-b families!

Have a great weekend.