October 5th - 9th, 2026: Scarecrows and Crows

Hello Firefly Families!

We had so much fun this week! We read the books The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid Of Anything, The Scarecrow and the Falling Leaves, The Scarecrow's Hat and Popcorn.  We cut out and built our own scarecrows and corn in the husk, practiced lacing with fall lacing cards, and used various shapes to make crows. Our sensory bin was filled with popcorn kernels and black beans (crows) and we had to use tongs to pick out the "crows" from the corn. We sequenced The Little Old Lady story together on the board, and practiced drawing scarecrows in our journals. Our HWT letter of the week was U. 

5 Black Crows (to the tune of 5 Green & Speckled Frogs)

5 crows all shiny black 

sat on a scarecrows back, 

eating the most delicious corn--

YUM! YUM! 

Scarecrow winked and shouted "BOO!" 

scared that crow and away he flew! 

Now there are 4 black shiny crows...

"CAW! CAW!" (repeat going down to zero)

Scarecrow

I am a scarecrow 

stuffed with hay, 

standing watch in my field all day. 

When I see a crow

I like to shout.....

"Hey Mr. Crow you better get out!

Reminders:

*If anyone has any bird seed to spare at their home--please send it our way! Our new bird feeder on the window has been a big hit! But the birdies are clearing us out everyday!! Thanks in advance for considering :)

*Parent-Teacher Conferences: Monday, October 12th and Tuesday, October 13th from 3:30 - 5:30

*LECC Magic House Halloween Party!: Friday, October 23rd from 6 - 8

*Pumpkin Patch Field Trip: Wednesday, October 28th from 9:30-11:30 

Here are some fun pictures of our week!

Doing our "5 Crows All Shiny Black" Poem 

with some special helpers

Matching numeral to quantity 

with crows and corn

Cutting out and gluing corn

Thomas and his show and tell!

Cleaning up the rocks from our playground!

Isla and her show and tell!

Nico and his show and tell!

Fire Truck FUN!

Sequencing The Little Old Lady 

Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything

We did it!

Trying our homemade applesauce--YUM! It was a hit :)

How fast can you fill your tray? Using dice helps 

kiddos with counting one-to-one

Get those "crows" out of our corn!

Positional words practice

Cooper and his scarecrow!

Thomas and his tower!

Making shape crows

Tony and his creation

Working hard in art class

Our new friend Henning!

Fall lacing cards

Nico and his Lego creation

Coming up next week: SpOoKy stuff! Spiders, ghosts, monsters, OH MY!

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Lexi & Lyndee

September 28th - October 2nd, 2026: Apples (Week 2!)

Happy Friday, Firefly Families!

This week we completed our apple unit. We read Apple Picking Day, Peppa Goes Apple Picking, Apple Farmer Annie, and Apple Pie Tree. We played with apple pie playdough, stamped apples using red, green and yellow paint, finished our apple measuring class book, learned how to make Mat Man and drew him in our journals and did an ABC apple hunt around our classroom. Our favorite part of the week was making yummy cinnamon applesauce together! Our HWT letter of the week was I. 

The Little Appleseed Poem (to the tune of Itsy Bitsy Spider)

First a little appleseed 

was planted in the ground.

Down came the raindrops 

falling all around.

Out came the sun 

bright as bright could be.

And that little appleseed

grew up to be an apple tree!

Reminders:

*Fall Parent-Teacher Conferences: Monday, October 12th & Tuesday, October 13th (if you missed it, click HERE to sign up!)

*LECC Halloween Party @ The Magic House: Friday, October 23rd from 6 -8 PM

*Thies Farm Pumpkin Patch Field Trip: Wednesday, October 28th! Please let us know who will be bringing your child, and send in your exact cash by Thursday, October 22nd. More info below!

Here are some pictures from our week!

Garden fun!

Making our yummy applecsauce

Apple ABC hunt!

"Wet, Dry, Try" with our letter of the week, I

The apple peel was as tall as Marleigh!

Omar found a RED leaf! Fall weather is coming :)

Our apples are ready to cook!

Every Firefly helped peel an apple for the applesauce!

Brinley and her show and tell!

Making MAT MAN!

Numeral to quantity matching game

Making MAT MAN as a class!

Stamping apples

Working on our apple counting book

Working on our pop-up leaves in Art Class!

Measuring each other with apples

How many apples long are you?

Fun Friday in the gym!

James brought Woody for Show and Tell!

Our Fireflies as APPLES on the carpool bulletin board!

Coming up next week: Scarecrows and Crows!

Have a great weekend!

Lexi & Lyndee