Oh Mr. Scarecrow...

Yesterday was the final lesson planned for our fall fruit and vegetable week.  How could you not talk about celebrating the harvest, fruits, and vegetables, without talking about scarecrows? And oh boy did we have fun with our lesson.

First up was circle time.  We started off getting our wiggles out, and the boys chose to do the airplane song.  I am realizing that the boys REALLY do listen and pay attention, even when you think they don't.  And I should also know by now that when it comes to my boys, they learn a song the first time through.

From getting our wiggles out, we transitioned to reading a couple of books that were about scarecrows.  The one book that the boys LOVED was The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown.  This also happened to be the book that we based our craft off of.  I had pre-glued 5 craft sticks together and cut out little hats for each scarecrow.  The boys glued their hats on, as well as wiggly eyes, and used markers to draw in noses and mouths.  Pierce became even craftier and started cutting the top of the hat to make fringe.  Not quite sure where he got the idea, but he had a lot of fun doing it!  Both boys attempted to create the scariest of all faces so that no crows would come near the house.  :)

They also did a color by shape.  Carter did not quite understand it, and I certainly did not expect him to.  Pierce did understand it, and worked so hard to stay in the lines.  He is really loving these various color by shapes/numbers/letters, etc., that I am finding, and will have to keep finding them for him. 

The boys also worked on matching apple cards, tracing, and Pierce worked very hard on cutting on the lines of some various cut outs I had found.  Carter did a fantastic job of matching the apple cards I had.  He even knew the difference between checkered, striped, and polka dots.  Go Carter!  And Pierce was such an awesome big brother by trying to hand Carter the cards I asked him to find.  

Pierce and Carter said they absolutely loved the work we did yesterday, and they loved the fact that I took them to the park after school so they could run and play.  We did the playground, walking trails, exploring the river, and the paracourse at Rockwell.  I loved the fact that for the first time in a long time, they both napped at the same time, which gave me some much needed down time.  Yay!

This upcoming week is our All About Me week.  We kicked it off by attending Family Fun Day in Terryville today, exploring everything and trying to think of the senses that we were using.  I also did 4 batches of not only colored rice, but scented rice.  We have yellow rice that smells like lemon, green rice that smells like vanilla, orange that smells like almonds, and pink that smells like anise.  I am going to have them mix it all together in a sensory bucket on Monday, mixed with some pom poms to provide a different texture.  Ironically enough, one of the vendors at the event today had done the same thing.

I am going to sign off of here, and head back to playing color square basketball.  Once I get enough pictures, I will be happy to post how we played this game.  Have a great night everyone!