Gingerbread

This week we are starting out Gingerbread theme I am so excited for this theme. I love when the kids get to experience Christmas in a hands on way.

The FunShine Express sent me some amazing material to  experiment with my Bumbles. We will be singing, playing, and introducing so many new things to these littles.

I am mostly excited about the gingerbread men they sent. Of course I will be using them to repeat the Buster Buddy song at  Circle. Our morning is not complete without giving each bumble the spotlite as they move there object and say hello. I have adapted for Christmas by giving them a gingerbread man and changing the lyric

Gingerbread goes high
Gingerbread goes low
Gingerbread wants to meet _____ here he goes

we also introduce them by singing this song

In The 2016/2017 CD they also have a gingerbread song that we have played during art and as a freeze Dance even if you don't own the CD its fun to sing as they play with Gingerbread playdoh or at circle

Thank you note

To work on our language development we talked about things we are thankful for. Family, friend , Jesus, toys ect. We decided to make Mr. Ron a thank you card ( Mr. Ron leads worship for us every week)

We colored the front of the card and added stickers

On the inside we painted our hands to look like turkeys 

When it was dry we walked around singing Gobble Gobble Thank You by:Tammy Ziegler

Sung to "skip to my Lou"

Gobble, gobble, gobble we say thank you

Gobble, gobble, gobble we say thank you

Gobble, gobble, gobble we say thank you

Thank you for all you do!

Thank you streamers

The Funshine Curriculm came with this great art idea.

To start I cut out the pieces like this.

This way I was able to keep the pieces together till I was ready to attach them to the streamers. We then let the bumbles color and add the stickers provided. 

I then attached them to the streamers provided the bumbles love their banners.

Please and Thank You

With Thanksgiving just around the corner this was a great theme to introduce to the Bumbles. I held up the Dinner a vocabulary card as we talked about what the picture was. I had some bumbles say waiting family and yummy.

We talked about our favorite foods and I showed them how to say please and thank you in sign language.

Music and movement:

I'm not sure where I got these but I've had them for years. They are maracas shaped like fruits and vegetables. We used these instead of the manners felt board. 

We shook them as we sang this song

Sung to" Did you ever see a lassie"

Oh when I want (an apple). 

( an apple, an apple)

Oh when I want (an apple). 

I always say please.

( an apple, an apple)

Please give me an (an apple). 

Oh when I want (an apple). 

I always say please.

Oh when I get (an apple). 

( an apple, an apple)

Oh when I get (an apple). 

It's thank you I say.

Oh thank you oh thank you

For giving me an (an apple). 

Oh when I get (an apple). 

It's thank you I say..

Fall ideas

Turkeys

We painted their feet brown then added feather a beak and gobbler to make these turkeys.

November books

These are all fabulous hands on books to read to two or three year olds. They hold their attention and are short but interactive.

Vegtable pick up

This was a great way to get the bumbles to familiarize themselves with different fruits and Vegtables. 

Give each child a food card

Have them sit in a circle as you sing this song while driving the truck around

When you song the child food have them load it in the truck. You can use any toy truck I used this wooden truck I got from the FunShine express.

Art:

Thankful Child pictures 

What you need:

Cornucopia pattern

Squared of plastic canvas, 

Stickers

Each child used the plastic square to paint a pattern on the cornucopia.

Once they dry stick child picture in the center then encourage them to stick stickers around their pictures. 

I turned them into placemats by gluing them to a larger piece of paper then writing what the are thankful around it.

Using the matrials provided in the FunShine Curriculm we made turkey 

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Fall harvest week 2

This week we continued on our fall harvest theme. We brought out our basket of potato vocabulary card. we talked about how potato are grown.

We then played hot potato. We do not however get out when the song stops but clapped and continue on.

We sang the vegetable pick up song continued from last week.

Fall Harvest

Today we started our language development time using our Corn vocabulary card. We talked about the item in the picture, asked what type of food it was and who likes corn.

We then took out the November Object of the Month a wooden truck we talked about what the farmer does with his truck then continued on to the Vegtable Match