Rocker 7

Today the kids and I, along with our friends, the Wrays, decided to visit a new pumpkin patch nearby called "Rocker 7."  Sounds just like a pumpkin patch name, right?  Rocker 7 is home to a 4- acre corn maze in the shape of the Statue of Liberty, a bouncy pillow, a tiny petting zoo, a pumpkin patch (actually pumpkins scattered throughout some hay bales), a sunflower field, a wagon hay ride, a wheat and corn seed jumping pit,  and a couple of random other climbing things like giant tires and more hay bales.  It wasn't super impressive for the price, but it was something to do, and this is its first year in operation, so maybe it will get better as the years go on.

The kids actually liked the corn maze probably the best.  They had a map with 6 different clues they had to find in order to make it out.  The little kids (Alora, Max & Dayley) found 3 and the big kids found all 6. 

The other activity the kids really seemed to like was perhaps the dirtiest.  Go figure.  They had this wheat seed and corn seed jumping pit type area.  The kids literally cannon-balled into these pits and at one point, our friend, Hone, was buried in the corn, much like burying someone in the sand.  Even the big kids seemed to have fun in the seeds. 

Alora and Dayley in the wheat seeds

The kids burying Hone in the corn seeds

Even the big kids got a train ride!

 

No idea who this giant cutout is... maybe the farm's owner???

Max would make a cute scarecrow

The sunflower fields.  Jackson is way in the distance exploring.

What about the pumpkins?  I personally did want to pay another $50 for pumpkins, so my kids still got to look, but in the end, we just bought our pumpkins at good ole' Wal-mart. 

Joy School: Letter G, Fall Theme

Besides regular preschool, Max participates in a Joy School preschool.  This preschool is run by several moms who take turns each week teaching.  This was my first week teaching and I felt pretty lucky because I had the theme of Fall.  Such a fun theme!  There's so many things associated with Fall that it was hard to narrow down what I should teach.  Luckily, I have 3 weeks of this theme, so I can space it out with my assigned letters as well.  This weeks letter was G.

I found this awesome tree that came with green leaves, colored leaves, acorns, and various animals.  I decorated the tree with the green leaves first and then as we talked about Fall, down came some green leaves and up went the colored leaves.  We also changed out the animals.  My favorite thing was teaching the kids the word "chlorophyll." 

Summer tree

Fall tree

Some of the other activities we did were "Ghosts on G."  The kids made ghost stamps out of potatoes, stamped them on black paper and then cut and glued them onto the letter G. 

We talked about scarecrows and used various shapes to make our own scarecrow.

 

 

Besides the Fall theme and the letter G, we also learned the sight word "the."  We then made these Fall trees using the word "the."  (Max, however, decided to write random things instead of the correct word.)

Lastly, we made a "Leaves on the Tree" booklet that talked about the various color of Fall leaves.  We even managed to squeeze in a few Fall-themed books during snack time (grapes and goldfish for the letter G).  It was a pretty jammed packed two hours, but overall I think it went pretty well. 

Coming up next week: more Fall fun, the letter H, and the sight word me!