Making Pumpkin Marshmallows:  Insert marshmallow on a stick.  Roll marshmallow in icing.  Roll marshmallow in orange sprinkles.  Add chocolate chip eyes, mouth, nose.  Eat! 

 Concentration!

 TA-DA!

 Pumpkin Marshmallow!

 The students couldn't wait to jump in leaves!  This tree started losing its leaves early, so I brought out 3 plastic, kid-sized rakes I had purchased, and I took out my rake, and the kids played for hours!  I thought it was cute when I asked them if I had to pay them for doing yard work (raking), and Casey replied, "Let us in the Treasure Box!"

 Mod Podge and Pumpkins!  I gave the children a variety of items to use to decorate their mini pumpkins.  The item they found that worked best was the tissue paper. 

 We converted this habitat into a play habitat by removing the live plants and soil and adding sand instead.  The children wanted to take plants home with them, so I found 3 pots in my garage, added soil, and let them choose which plant they wanted to take home with them.  This became a little lesson on how they need to take care of their plants:  place it in some sun, give it some water.  They want more sand in the habitat, so I will go buy more soon!

 One of my students grandmas donated these leaves, so we decorated them with Puffy Paint and glitter, and then I placed a picture of each child in their leaf to take home. 

 Madison cleaning up!  The children know to put their toys in the right containers so everything is not everywhere and they can find items easily later.

 Name recognition labels and our beta fish:  Red Fin and Blue Fin.  The children love to feed the fish, and that is one of our designated jobs each day.  I also label as many items as possible with their names so that they have to recognize their names throughout the day:  tablets, names at snack table, names at Circle Time.

 Egg Painting.  I gave each child an outline of an egg on white paper.  I placed the paper in a tray and gave each child a hard-boiled egg.  I pulled out my fall-colored paints and let each child decide which colors they wanted to paint with.  I then put a large dot of paint in the middle of their paper, and they placed their egg in the tray on top of the paper and tilted the tray back and forth to "paint" their paper eggs.  We then let the boiled egg and paper eggs dry overnight.  Then we cut their eggs out of the paper, and they wanted to take their eggs home.  We have been studying E is for Eggs and doing a lot this week with our Egg theme. 

 E is for Egg.  Which animals are oviparous (lay eggs) and which do not lay eggs.  I made this chart and pictures of animals, insects, etc.  After we did a study on animals that lay eggs, I let them take turns choosing a card and deciding if it was an oviparous animal or not.  I also gave them a small piece of sticky tac with which they could tack their picture onto the correct side of the chart.  When we got to the bunny, we used Google to see if bunnies laid eggs.  They were saying "yes," and I was saying, "no," so I took this as an opportunity to show them how we can find out for sure.

 I liked this picture showing the largest egg (ostrich) compared to the smallest of eggs (hummingbird).

 "Will you take our picture on the steps?"  I love to take pictures of my students together, so since they asked, I was happy to oblige.  Cute!

 Love this picture!

 Making faces!

 Jake's Funny Face!

 Painting dried gourds!  I gave the children paintbrushes and paint and let them go to town painting their gourds!  They liked this activity!

 Our "Egg" speriment!  What happens to our teeth if we drink lots of soda/juice and don't brush our teeth?  I hard boiled 3 eggs and placed one in a see-through cup labeled soda, another in a clear cup labeled water, and the third in a clear cup labeled vinegar.  Then we let them sit overnight 2 nights and examined them the following school day.  The egg in soda, of course, turned brown, nothing happened to the one in water, and the egg placed in the vinegar became very rubbery on the outside.  The kids enjoyed touching this one, because the shell was no longer hard but felt like rubber.  We learned we need to brush our teeth twice a day for two minutes each time to keep foods/drinks off of our teeth!

 Casey turns 5!

 Celebrating with Casey.  Casey's mom brought in a piñata, which the kids loved taking turns hitting with a plastic bat!  Wish I would have remembered my camera for that!

 Using our bodies to make a letter F!  I took this picture then showed the students the picture of how their bodies made a letter F shape.  They are lying under a spider web that Casey decided to create after one of our lessons on measuring:  we had used the yard to measure our bodies, and Casey wanted the yard afterwards to design this spider web!  I had to step around it for the latter part of the day, but they wanted to leave it up to play with, so we did!

 Teeth from the piñata!  "Let's be monsters!" 

 Here we formed the letter F with Fruit Loops.  I drew the letter onto construction paper (each got their favorite color of paper), and the kids lined the F with Fruit Loops.  Of course, then they ate some cereal after they were finished!  So did I!