Pumpkin Bread

We had pumpkin bread today. Did your child

like the pumpkin bread? Yes or No?

Want to make pumpkin muffins with your child?  Here's an easy recipe---

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/93290/easy-pumpkin-muffins/

The Web Master

It's time for our MWF preK students to trace, color and cut to create a spooky Halloween web of fun!

 We covered the bulletin board with a cheap black tablecloth
and added webs, googly eyes and spiders.

The 'after' picture will be posted later in the month! 

Past Halloween boards---

2015-

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2015/10/mcp-haunted-house.html

2014-

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2014/10/well-dance-beneath-moonlight-part-2.html

2013-

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-spooky-night-part-2.html

2012-

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2012/10/halloween-night.html

2011-

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2011/10/haunted-house.html

Smashing Pumpkins

Our preschoolers will be smashing, rolling,

pushing and mushing pumpkin play dough! 

Pumpkin play dough recipe

and more play dough recipes---

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2011/10/dough-boy.html

Jack-O-Lantern Jars 2016

It is an MCP tradition for the MWF preK students to make a jack-o-lantern jar.  It brings me great joy when I hear parents tell me they have them set out for the holidays especially when several siblings have already created their jar. 

We create these jars over several class periods.  Need directions for Scouts, Sunday school or a family gathering?

We have found it is easier to apply the glue to the jar and let the children add the tissue.
http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2011/10/boo-tiful-lights.html

Have some fun creating jack-o-lantern jars with your child today!

We Built This CIty

Parents of our program know that we love to work with big giant cardboard boxes.  These creative projects allow the children to work together.  This piece was inspired by a picture I saw in a magazine and clipped and filed.  I would love to credit the magazine but cannot remember which (it has to be REAL SIMPLE,  Rachael Ray or Food Network...that's about all I pick up). 

I will acknowledge the artist, Ali Douglass.  Her Orange Cityscape caught my imagination and we did our own interpretation. 

The MWF students are learning about the city and the country.  How are they alike and how are they different? Our MWF students had a lot of fun building the city.  We are planning on creating a country landscape on the other side of  the cardboard.  Here's what we did...

I painted sky and a road.

I cut a variety of tall buildings.  The children chose a color and filled in the skyline.

Office stickers make great windows!

Smaller buildings and more windows...

 

Planes, (no trains) and automobiles die cut from old cereal boxes are colored and glued.

What's next? The Great Pumpkin!
Thanks to Ali Douglass for the inspiration! Be inspired to do something creative with your child today!

Pumpkin Pudding---yes or no?

We started our Pumpkin unit with our TTh 3 y/o class yesterday and tasted Pumpkin Pudding.
There was no middle ground with this recipe. They either loved it or hated it. I love it! It tastes just like pumpkin pie. You need a Snack Pack vanilla pudding and a can of Pumpkin Pie Mix. Add a small spoonful of pumpkin pie mix to the pudding and stir well.

We also looked at the plant that has been outside the classroom.  It's a pumpkin vine!  A pumpkin that is cut open has lots of seeds.  More pumpkin fun next week.

The Primaries

 We painted on canvas today! We used the primary colors.

We learned it is very important to clean the brush between colors.

 

 

We learned some art vocabulary---canvas, palette and smock. 

We also are able to identify primary and secondary colors.

Our work will be displayed in the MCP Art Gallery outside our room!