Walk-a-thon

The children had a beautiful day for the Walk-a-thon! 

They had great fun walking four laps to help raise money for the Topsfield Playground Committee!

Thanks to everyone who donated!

Orange Day Fun!

We had a lot of fun on Orange Day! During center time, the children had the opportunity to make pumpkins out of orange playdough, mix red and yellow paint to paint pumpkins at the easel, and make pictures using stamps and orange stamp pads.

The children also explored a mixture of corn starch and water called oobleck. We mixed orange food coloring into the water before adding it to the corn starch. The children truly enjoyed this activity!

Orange Day was a big hit!

Apples Up On Top!

Last week, I read Ten Apples Up On Top! by Dr. Seuss. The children answered questions and made predictions about the story. Afterwards, each child used one-to-one correspondence to count out paper apples to put on top of their picture. The children enjoyed this activity and the pictures look adorable on the bulletin board!

Time to make the playdough!

Whereas the color of the month for October is orange, Mrs. P had the children help her make orange playdough for the class. Each child added two ingredients and stirred the dough while everyone sang "Stirring and Stirring and Stirring our Dough" (sung to the tune of "Stirring our Brew").

This was a great language building activity and the children got to see what happens when you mix the colors red and yellow.

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