Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere. Here is a list of my favorite pumpkin activities to do with my preschool children. What do we know about pumpkins?
After the children were done exploring what was inside the pumpkin we cut up the pumpkin and placed the pieces inside a glass jar. We had the children predict what they thought would happen to the pumpkin inside the jar. Each child prediction was written down and placed on a board next to the jar. Pumpkin water table fun. After the children have explored what is inside a pumpkin, place those pumpkins inside your water table. To add to the fun when cutting the tops make each one different to that the children have to figure out with lid goes to which pumpkin. Let the children paint, paint, paint. While the paint is still wet let the children sprinkle glitter on top. These beautiful and sparkle pumpkins will delight any door step. Do you have some little ones that are hesitant in wanting to come to your writing center? Add some pumpkins and dry erasable markers to the center and watch them come. They will writing and laughing with their friends and they create funny faces. Pumpkin bean bag toss. We use this game as a transitional game from group to snack time. Children toss the pumpkin bean bag onto a paper plate and then identify the letter and letter sound before moving on to wash hands. For More Hands on Learning Fun![]() Turn your classroom into your very own pumpkin patch with this 114 page lesson plan. This is packed full of ideas that are sure to spark the interest of all children in your classroom and give them the joy of life long learning. This lesson will help you cover all the learning domains for the children in your classroom. Teaching Preschoolers Teachers Pay Teachers ![]() October ABC Time and Math Time morning messages are pre-written and carefully planned to address a variety of language and literacy learning and math foundations. These messages are also designed to differentiate teaching objectives. These messages have been carefully crafted to engage the children in a fun playful learning manner. Teaching Preschoolers Teachers Pay Teachers
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I'm excited to be back for another PreK Partners learning center blog hop. This week we will be sharing about how we are setting up and using the science center in our preschool classrooms. Our science center or science lab is a place for children to explore, question and observe the world around them. Our science center has accessibility to a wide variety of objects and materials that will spark children’s interest to acquire knowledge and support learning in physical, life, and earth science. In order to support the children’s learning I like to have a table so that children have a place to observe, document and experiment with the materials. A shelf that houses basket and trays with provocations and we also like to have our sensory table close by because it provides a great place for children to conduct experiments in like sink and float, color mixing, and chemical reaction. The science center is a way for young children to build a foundation for future learning and scientific understanding. It is a center to provoke thought, discussions, questions, interest and ideas. It is a center that will allow children to observe, communicate, and predict. Nature is always a great place to start to provide materials for the science center.
Introduce children to scientific tools.
Provide children with a way to visually see their learning. • Documentation Charts and Graphs Include long term investigation projects in your science center. • Long Term Investigations As the teacher we can…
I hope you enjoyed the tour of our preschool science center. To see more fun and engaging science center’s hop on over to PreK Partners. Eeeek!! SpidersSpiders, Spiders, Spiders that is what we have been hearing from the children. So we found time to bring a spider to them this week. Group TimeWe are lucky enough to have a teacher on campus that has a pet tarantula that we were able to baby sit for the week. Which is a big thing for me and the assistance in my classroom since we all have a spider fear. So... It took everything I had to take that thing out so that they could see it up close a personal. Note... Notice the gloves, there was no way I was touching that thing with my bare hands. We weaved our very own spider web. After we sat under our web and watch a short clip about spider. We made predictions about what would stick to a spider web and then tested our theory by making spider webs and dropping items on them to see if they would stick or break the web. Work Time (Learning Centers)Some of the children chose to go to the clay center and create their very own spiders. While others wanted to observe and document what they saw. They even wanted to see how long the spider skin was. Small Group ActivitiesThe children sorted spiders by color, discovery which group had more or less. and made spider patterns. Children recalled what they learned about webs and what would stick in them. Children used spider web mats to identify, count and write numbers. Next Week Plans will includeGroup MeetingWe practice our color recognition with this fun spider color pocket chart story. Spicer Anchor ChartWork TimeSmall GroupResources![]()
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