Parent Teacher Conference Painting

During Parent Teacher Conferences, we had the joy of staying at school for an extra long day. I decided we needed to do something special to keep us going for the day. The kids had so much fun splatter painting outside that I thought we should try it again. I hung paper on the wall and placed one on the ground. We had 9 different colors to paint with and we had to take turns using different colors. I thought we would only last for about 10 minutes but the kids painted for over 25 minutes easy, some painting for about 45 minutes!!! I never knew had such talented artists. I guess this is something we are going to have to do again.

Lonne is definitely a painter. He went to play for a little while and then came back a second time to make sure all the white spots were filled in.

Check out our masterpeices! They are gorgeous!! We have the bottom one left at the ELC if anyone wants it for their office!

October pictures

Snuggles are the best part of my job!

Leaf races in the creek at Hannam University

J-U-M-P!


The boys figured out that you could look under the stage and see the people walking behind it. I just LOVE this picture!

Hanging out with the big boys!

Swinging!

The dangers of sidewalk chalk!

The kids found a water pack outside one afternoon and organized their own game all by themselves.

More gym time fun!

Check out what Seth and Zachary have been learning in Pre-K gym class. They are becoming great hula hoopers! (Sorry for my loud voice. I keep forgetting the camera is closer to me than others :) ).

The balance beam has been out recently so we had a chance work on our balancing skills. Check out Sara walking across the beam without any help.

Ephraim and Esther enjoy outside

Ephraim enjoys being outside with the big kids.

He's learned to color on the tree with the big guys.

Esther and Sofie have some coloring time.

Not sure what they are saying to each other but I think it is really important :).

Pumpkin Art

On our first day of pumpkins, we made pumpkin hats. We had to glue strips of paper onto a sentence strip. We had to line the orange strips up to a certain line. This was a hard skill for some us to master but we persevered.

We look pretty snazzy in our pumpkin hats!

Mrs. Jennifer saw an activity on a website of how to make your own paint swatters. The kids had fun with them even though, they didn't quite work as planned. We had hoped to see more pumpkin shapes with our swatters but the kids just enjoyed swatting the paper with the paint.

We painted pumpkins one day but in order to make orange paint for the pumpkins, we had to mix our own paint first. We learned that red and yellow paint makes orange paint when you mix it all together.

Library with Ms. Yun

Ms. Yun has been teaching us in the library lately. She has been so much fun. One day she dressed up and told us the story of Harold and the Purple Crayon. She drew on the Smartboard just like Harold did.

Check out Ms. Yun in action!

The next week, she acted out the story Mouse Paint with us. We learned about how red, yellow, and blue make new colors when you mix them. Ms. Yun had really cool mice that changed colors when you overlapped them!

After the story and a fun primary colors song, we got to make our colors with leaves. If you touched the red leaf to the yellow leaf it made orange. The blue and yellow leaf made green and the red and blue leaf made purple. What a fun day in the library!

Pumpkin Centers

This week, we are learning about pumpkins. We had lots of new activities to try out.

Yong Suk is matching numbers of pumpkins to the right basket with the same number.

This was definitely our favorite center. We got to use our fine motor skills to hammer nails into a pumpkin. We could hammer them in and we learned to take them out with the hammer by rocking the hammer like a lever.

We also enjoyed scooping sparkly jewels into pumpkin containers.

Sophia matched all the colored pumpkin puzzles!

We had some more writing practice. This time it was pumpkin themed.

We are starting to branch out from the dress up and block center. Though they are both our favorite activities, we are starting to find out that Mrs. Jennifer's drawers are really not that bad to play with. :)