The days of fall are upon us. I honestly can't say that it is my favorite season because summer truly has my heart, however autumn is a close second. When the leaves are changing, the world looks a little more beautiful. In the fall you have pumpkins, mums, and the smell of apple cider filling the air.
I couldn't resist another nature table change. It is probably our 4th one this month, but there is just so much to see and so many changes taking place outside. Come join us for some pumpkin fun.
Even though I like to make things fun, I always get our learning in. Maybe they realize it and maybe they don't. All I know is we are enjoying these snuggle up days of fun and exploring.
As usual Miss Bell joined us for our Life cycle of a Pumpkin learning, she really enjoyed looking at the cards.
No need for a Sensory play container today when we have the real thing. Dig in and squish away.
If you are interested in some wonderful fall books you should definitely check out The Scarecrow's Dance, Nuts to You, The Pumpkin Runner, and Awesome Autumn. These are just a few of our all time favorites.
In this house we are getting living math in by talking about guesses, educated guessing, estimating, and then counting the seeds to see actually how many we have. It was 290 seeds in this small pumpkin. After all of the counting was done, we washed the seeds, roasted them, and then all of the children.
Little B did a few fun activities, like button sorting- small, medium, and large with autumn buttons. As well as color sorting the Jack-o-lanterns.
Other activities that we have enjoyed this month can be found here for our Kinder days, here if you are interested in Toddler play, and all of the free printables seen in my fall posts can be located easily right here.
Until next time...
I am off to go get a delicious cup of hot apple cider.
Looks like lots of fun! I love the small, medium, large idea. I might just have to use it! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love how America celebrates Autumn and Thanksgiving with such aplomb! It doesn't happen with that kind of enthusiasm over here in the uk! Oh well, I can enjoy it vicariously through all the wonderful posts going round at the moment!
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Kim! I love your nature tables! (I really have to find somewhere in our house where we can do that too!) We didn't do any pumpkins this year, but my kids have put their order in for me to plant pumpkins in the garden again next year :) We love eating homemade pumpkins seeds! Yum! My girls love the squishy feeling up playing in pumpkin goop too. Thank you for sharing!
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