Nursery 3 Newsletter
Nursery 3 PM News
October 28th, 2011
Dear Parents,
The children continue to enjoy autumn activities in and out of the classroom. We started the week with an apple tasting activity. Rachel said, “The apples are taking a bath!” as she and some of her classmates washed them under cold water at the sink. We sampled six different kinds of apples: golden delicious, macintosh, fuji, golden crisp, red delicious and granny smith. Some children spent a lot of time sampling before deciding which kind of apple they liked the best. On Tuesday we used graph paper to chart our findings. Granny smith apples were most popular, receiving three out of ten votes.
We were lucky to be able to cut open and explore a spaghetti squash. Dylan asked, “What’s in here?” He remarked, “It’s oval!” Many children guessed that it might contain actual spaghetti. Charlie remembered that the gourds contained seeds and thought the spaghetti squash might have seeds in it also. When we cut it open, we discovered that there are seeds inside like gourds but that in other ways it is unique. May said, “It’s got spaghetti squash in it. It reminds me of aliens in outer space.” Grace said, “The inside is bumpy.” Olivia said, “It looks like smooth and yellow and oval.” We enjoyed it later for our delicious snack with olive oil and a touch of salt. Yum!!
The children enjoyed playing with gourds, plastic Halloween ducks, tongs, cups to pour with and smooth stones in our water table. We began to explore the concept of sink or float. May said, “These ducks floats and these rocks sink. The gourd pumpkins are sinking.”
We learned a new song: “Autumn Leaves are Falling” and colored a song book. We went on a leaf hunt and painted our favorite leaves and then made leaf prints pictures.
Books we love:
Humbug Witch by Lorna Balian
Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash by Sarah Weeks
The Spooky Wheels on the Bus by J. Elizabeth Mills
Brave Little Monster by Ken Baker
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
Ghost Dinner by Jacques Duquenney
Have a great weekend!!
Love,
Mary Alice and Sue