October - "The Farm and Fall Fun"

I'll split October into 2 parts, because we had the farm and fall and then had Halloween. I was excited for this new theme as the "babies" theme Natalie wasn't too thrilled about, but I knew how much she loved farm animals and would enjoy this one.

Nat and Mac

 Some highlights from this theme:

-playing with the corn and apples
-the rocking horse and barn
-apple baskets and listening to the farm animal sounds
-pouring corn in the farm area
-seeing Julie's real bunny rabbit

(taken from their classroom blog)

It's beginning to feel a lot like FALL in the toddler room!  Our baby nursery has been transformed into a fun, farm scene.  Who said that "farm chores" weren't fun?!?  Our favorite jobs are raking the leaves, picking apples, finding eggs and even feeding the animals in the barn.  At least we are able to take a break from this hard work by going on a picnic outside! 

ps.. Santa brought Natalie a pony for Christmas.

the classroom decorated
(the janitor worked extra hard this month with all the hay)

Natalie's artwork 

having a picnic with her teacher Julie
(Julie also has bilateral cochlear implants)

enjoying a nice fall day outside
(Natalie chose to wear rain boots to school this day)

Speech Therapy Highlights:

- working on new words and labeling them
- practiced really hard on phrases "under" and "on" -- 'the rabbit is on the table' etc.
-lots of SVO (subject-verb-object) varieties...
-practicing "can I have..." to request
- learned the word belt and became obsessed with them :)
-had an annual assessment