Today the toddlers got to turn their orange painted pumpkins into Jack O’ Lanterns! We talked about all of the different shapes we can use to make the faces. We used triangles for eyes to reinforce the shape of the month and let them choose between triangles or circles for the nose. The last step was to make their pumpkin happy or sad. For the most part everyone choose happy but there were a few that went for the sad pumpkin!
teaching shape recognition with the familiar pumpkin
Helping promote the recognition of healthy emotions in the toddler classroom
Today at group time we learned the song “5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate”. We are also talking about the color orange this month so it was fun to talk about the color of the pumpkins! The shape we are focusing on this month is a triangle. The kids loved playing the pumpkin face game by telling me what shapes I should use for the face of the pumpkins. The concepts of “happy” and “sad” are also important to talk about with children at this age. The children laughed when I made one pumpkin a happy pumpkin and the other pumpkin a sad pumpkin.
Below is the song we learned today so you can sing it at home!
“5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate”
5 Little pumpkins sitting on a Gate,
The first one said “Oh my it’s getting late!”
The second one said “There are witches in the Air!”
The third one said “But we don’t care!”
The fourth one said “Let’s run and run and run!”
The fifth one said “I’m ready for some fun!”
Ohhhh Ohhhh went the wind!
And OUT went the lights!
Then five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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