Happy Halloween from our Cuties!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Thank you to all of the parents who helped
out or joined our party this morning!
The cuties (and Aidah and I!) had a blast! Thanks to Mina and Neetu for all of their
hard work in planning and organizing, and to everyone for helping out or
sending in things! And thank you so much
parents for the surprise birthday singing and gifts!!! I feel so loved—thank you so so much! It is so appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!
It was another fun week in the
Pre K yellow starfish class….lots of PPPPPPPumpkin and Halloween activities!!!
This week we had a lot of
different explorations and centers that students had the opportunity to try
out. We…
*learned/reviewed the sound,
letter formation, and hand motion for the letter Pp.
*brainstormed words that
started with or contained Pp and wrote them/drew them in our language books.
*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!
*observed, weighed, and carved a
pumpkin, counted the seeds (155!) and voted on which face to carve into our big
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 (and will continue next week with a related activity)
*Read a nonfiction book
about pumpkins and sequenced pictures of the lifecycle of a pumpkin. (We will
continue this the next couple of weeks J)
*learned the songs Pumpkin
Man and 5 Little Pumpkins.
*participated in some candy
corn math (with an opportunity to taste the candy corns of course! J)
*played a listening game
with jack-o-lanterns –they had many different shapes for features
*were interested in shapes
and explored geoboards and shape stencils
*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.
*had the option to make
some Halloween crafts.
* made pumpkins to hang
from the ceiling—lots of cutting involved and our cuties did a wonderful job!
*made pizza a learned a
little bit about Italy! Thank you to
Tiffany for coming in to cook with us!!!
YUM!
*made pigeon hats—the
cuties have been obsessed with one of my favorite authors-Mo Willems and asked
to make the hats!
REMINDERS/IMPORTANT DATES
Next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (Nov 2nd, 3rd
and 4th): On Monday and Tuesday all of the ECC teachers will be participating in a
Reggio workshop and will be in a different part of the school. On Wednesday Ms.
Jo and I will be attending a PLC leaders workshop at the school. There will be a sub teacher in the classroom
for me these three days, but Ms. Aidah will still be here. I will be here those
days in the mornings to greet the students and help the sub out (and go through
all of the lesson plans, explorations and activities), and will pop back into
the classroom whenever I have a break during the workshops to see my
cuties.
Monday, November 9th: FACULTY
INSERVICE DAY—NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
Tuesday, November 10th: DEEPAVALI HOLIDAY- NO SCHOOL
Thursday, November 26th and Friday, November 27th:
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY- NO SCHOOL
*Please return the red library bag and books on Monday!
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