The Connett Connection

Another week is done!  We had a lot of fun this week.  After having a day off on Monday due to Irma, we kicked our school days back up on Tuesday.  My daughter did NOT want to have school.  After four days off, who can blame her.  This is the reason we do year round school.  It keeps her in a routine and that keeps her from becoming upset when things have to change! We started our week off by going on a leaf hunt.  We started our fall themed activities last week and so this week we focused specifically on fall leaves. These pictures show my daughter picking up a leaf she found and the other is a close up of the collection of leaves and sticks we ended up with at the end of our walk!                                  As we were going through our pile of leaves and sorting them by color (our first activity with our leaves) my daughter got quite the surprise!  "MOM!  Something just fell off one of my leaves onto the chair!  I don't know what it is and I'm NOT going

We are going on a leaf hunt!  We're going to find some colorful ones!  That is what we did today.  We went on a walk and found a bag full of colorful leaves.  This post will feature some great, free activities to do with leaves you find outside! The first thing we did is sort our leaves by color.  I simply took a large sheet of paper and drew the different color circles on it and let my kinder sort the leaves into the appropriate spots.  You can also graph the different colors to see which one you have the most or least of.  You can also have students choose a favorite color leaf and make a classroom graph. Next, we chose a few nicely textured leaves that laid flat and made leaf rubbings! I have never done rubbings with my kids before and my daughter was amazed that she just rubbed a crayon on the paper and the leaf came through.  She had to pick and try out several different leaves! Another art project we did was leaf prints.  We dipped different shaped leaves

Last night at church, my oldest got to paint rocks.  I'm guessing they are going to put them around town like the new Facebook rock groups do.  Well, she really wanted to make her own, so we all got ready this morning and went to find rocks we could paint. Here is us starting our walk... so much energy and enthusiasm. Our first rock!  Ok, I know it is a chunk of cement from the crumbling curb, but the kids didn't care.  I think we ended up with 20 or so rocks to paint.  As soon as I get the paint we can start decorating! We also saw this amazingly large mushroom.  It was as big around as my foot is long. Be on the lookout in a couple of days for the results of our painted rocks!  I hope they turn out exactly how my daughter is expecting! MORE WAYS TO CONNECT Teachers Pay Teachers Store Boom Store Facebook Page Hands on Activities and Crafts for Kids Facebook Group Instagram Pinterest Youtube Subscribe below to our email list for the latest blog posts, product