All Aboard to the Fall Festival!

We are getting ready for the fall festival, but we are hooked on trains and planes!  The children have been busy everyday using the legos to create different trains and planes, drawing them, counting how many pieces they are using, and talking about where and what they are doing.........

Here are some samples of their work......

by Alexandre

by Carter

by Kyle

by Luke

We talk about the different shapes that make up the train, we write the numbers of how many pieces and windows we made, we write words about our train, and practice spelling and writing our names.

We wanted to make a "really big" train, and thanks to Kyle, we have lots of boxes to get us started!

First we needed "black circles" to make the tires.  The children counted how many tires we needed for each cart, and got to work...........

The next thing you know, Trevor and Carter said, "Hey! We can tape the boxes together too!"  And all of a sudden it started looking like a real train......

We needed to number the carts, so the children worked together to write the numbers for them.  If anyone wrote them backwards or didn't know how to write a number, their friends were right there to help them!

Then the question came up......."What is our train going to bring to the Fall Festival?"

"APPLES!!!!!"  "Because apples come in the fall!"

We brought in some apples, and we looked at them and talked about what they looked like, and felt like.  We saw lines and spots on the apples, they were smooth, and they were red, yellow and green.

We are very proud of the detail that the children put into their apple drawings.  This is amazing work for children their age!

We all cut out our apples and we picked Cart #2 to carry our load of apples.  We glued them onto the cart, and .................

Here is a "pile of apples" ready to be delivered to the Fall Festival!

Ashley wanted to make an apple sign that said "apple sign" ;0)  Of course it had to be pretty with glitter!

And since our apple sign had glitter on it, now we had to make our numbers with glitter too!

It looks like Cart #3 is on it's way to being the "Pumpkin Cart", and we will see what other things this train will deliver.  Alexandre is also going to teach our class how to make pumpkin bread! Mmmmmmm