Banana's Class

Dear Banana's Families,     It has been so great having our friends back in the classroom this week; we missed them so much over our quarantine. We have had a busy week in our classroom learning about pumpkins! Take a look at everything we have been up to! In the art center this week, we painted pumpkins and used collage materials to create our own unique pumpkins!     We opened up our sensory table for the first time this year and explored play with water, pumpkins, and gourds. We experimented to see if the pumpkins and gourds would sink or float!  In the table toys center the friends identified and matched various pumpkin shapes with their friends. They also used the unifix cubes in the center to measure and count the height and width of the pumpkins we added to the center. The friends continued to engage in play with our Farmers market in the dramatic play center and continued to construct farmers markets in our blocks center using different blocks. The friends have made som

Happy Friday, It has been a busy week of learning about Apples through our play and activities! Take a look at what we have been up to! Our dramatic play center was transformed into a Farmers Market/Apple Orchard where the friends engaged in play with picking apples, making recipes with apples, and engaging in various roles of play in a market (customer, cashier, baker,etc..).    In table toys we used geoshapes to make different fall pictures. The friends matched the shapes on the card to the geoshape to create the picture. We created patterns with apples and used unifix cubes to measure different items we may see during the fall season. In the block center, the friends engaged in play of building a farmers market! They used the blocks to create the stands and even added the play people to visit their farmers market. In science we learned about the different parts of an apple and used various tools in the center to explore the inside of the apple. During our weekly visit with our