Today brought the cold Fall weather. The children had fun today as they explored and learned with our Fall theme as the wind howled and the cold rain beat down outside the lab. We all embraced the true coming of Fall through our study of pumpkins inside along with bundling up and heading outside into the brisk air during outside time. The children hardly noticed the drastic weather change compared to our warm sunny day that existed only yesterday.
Right now at our light table we have leaf rubbings taking place, the children have also been sketching gourds and pumpkins in our art area. A new addition to our discovery area are lots of ways to explore with pumpkins! One of our sensory tables now contains a hollow pumpkin with the pumpkin's insides included on the side so the children are able to use their sense of touch to explore the inside of a pumpkin. Our biggest hit of the day was our pumpkin hammering area, where the children were able to hammer plastic nails into a pumpkin. Today the children also learned about measuring as they used a tape measure to measure the circumference and height of the pumpkins. Lots of learning took place as the children, felt, hammered, measured, sketched and held the pumpkins. 
-Ms. Tiffany Roemer
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