Sunday, 2 November 2014

Friday Update Oct 27 to 31

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  Thank you to all of the parents who helped out or joined our party this afternoon!  The cuties (and Aidah and I!) had a blast!  Thanks to Priyanka and Carolyn for all of their hard work in planning and organizing.

It was another fun week in the Pre K yellow starfish class….lots of PPPPPPPumpkin and Halloween activities!!! 
This week we…
*learned the sound, letter formation, and hand motion for the letter Pp.
*brainstormed word that started with or contained Pp and wrote them/drew them in our alphabet journals.
*added purple and pink pieces of paper for our feely letter Pp.
*we explored our pumpkin—rolled it, talked about what might be inside, how tall/heavy it was, measured it, drew it….and then cut it open to explore some more!  There were a lot of “wonderings” going on, and I think it might continue for awhile!  Our cuties were VERY interested in this pumpkin!
*estimated and counted the number of pumpkin seeds there would be in our big orange pumpkin!
*Painted symmetrical pumpkins and decorated them with a spooky Halloween scene.
*Created and copied patterns using Halloween characters
*ordered pumpkins from smallest to biggest
*Read a nonfiction book about pumpkins and sequenced pictures of the lifecycle of a pumpkin. (We will continue this next week J)
*learned the song Pumpkin Man and decorated the song sheet.  A copy of the song will come be in the Poems and Songs book. (I will send the Poems and Songs book home next Friday—I thought today would be a little too crazy J)
*Made a caterpillar out of circles, and wrote how “many circles long” their caterpillar was.
*played a listening game with jack-o-lanterns (tried to find different shapes for eyes….)
*Played a “draw a pig” game where they added different parts of the body to a pig depending on what number they rolled on the dice.
*Decorated a 5 Little Pumpkins page for our room.
* Made pumpkins to hang from the ceiling—lots of cutting involved and our cuties did a wonderful job!
* we were GOING to draw the Pigeon from Mo Willems’ books, but we ran out of time so we will do that next week!

The Little Orange House
This week, I told the students the story of the LITTLE ORANGE HOUSE. They loved it so much they wanted to show you.  There was a copy in the zippy pouch on wed—the story requires adult help---have fun!



REMINDERS/IMPORTANT DATES
Wednesday, November 26th:   Faculty Inservice Day, No School for Students
Thursday, November 27th and Friday November 28th:  THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.  NO SCHOOL
*Please remember to turn in lunch forms to school
*Remember to return red library bags and blue Friday Folder bags every Monday
Thank you!!!  Have a wonderful weekend!  Lynsey and Aidah

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