October News: Weeks of October 20th and 27th
Peapods
The Peapods have had a couple of busy weeks. We touched and tasted applesauce. Some of us loved it and a few did not, but we loved touching it and spreading it around our trays. We hope you are enjoying our Ghostly Pumpkins. We had so much fun decorating them, it just tickled our toes! We were also able to squish the insides of a pumpkin. It was very interesting! We have be reading a few books about Halloween this past week. We have enjoyed them so much and one we really enjoyed was It’s Pumpkin Day Mouse! by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. We hope everyone has a great Halloween!
Peapods II
Peapods 2 ended October by doing some awesome activities and celebrating some fun events! We used paint brushes again and painted pumpkins, we did an awesome job and we are becoming more familiar with how to use it. Diwali recently passed and we celebrated by using dot paint to decorate a Diwali picture. You can see our artwork displayed on our classroom door. We also enjoyed some sensory activities! First, we tried and explored applesauce! This was an activity that involved using two of our senses, touch and taste! While some of us enjoyed the taste of it, others enjoyed the way it felt on our hands. In our sensory bottles, this week we are exploring candy corn! We love shaking the bottles and rolling them around the classroom. Cardboard boxes have been one of our favorite things to explore, we are able to use our imagination when playing with it. We enjoy using it as a drum, collecting items inside of it, and even climbing inside! Our favorite part of climbing inside is when our teachers sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat and we get to pretend we’re in a boat. Peapods 2 wishes everyone has a safe and happy Halloween!
Seedlings
The Seedlings have been so busy these past two weeks! We had a lot of fun learning about fire prevention and Halloween. We want to thank the parents who let us borrow their Halloween books. The children absolutely loved them! We were busy being little artists, painting fire trucks, making tissue paper fires, coloring bats, creating handprint spiders and ghosts, and painting our own pumpkins to take home! We absolutely couldn’t get enough of it. We had so much fun exploring all the different art materials and are still learning about glue and how it makes us so sticky. The Seedlings have been enjoying the warm weather when it isn’t raining and playing on our playground. We’re getting very confident standing on the mushrooms, and some of us are even starting to jump off! We also got two huge boxes that we’re having a blast with. It’s so much fun decorating them with stickers and crayons. Sometimes we put toys inside to see how much will fit, and other times we climb in ourselves, which we think is so silly! During circle time, we read Little Blue Truck’s Halloween by Alice Schertle and sang and danced with scarves to the “Halloween Freeze” song. Thank you to everyone who helped make our Halloween party possible. The children were very excited and always love a good reason to celebrate. Happy Halloween!
Little Sprouts
Little Sprouts had so much fun over the past two weeks as we learned about Diwali and Halloween! Each morning, we started our day with the good morning song, practiced our ABC’S and numbers, practiced our days of the week and sang about the weather! We explored our creativity by using dot markers to color lanterns! We were very excited to paint our pumpkins and make Jack-o-lantern’s and handprint ghost! We had fun carving our pumpkin are scooping out the inside! We enjoyed washing our pumpkin in the sensory bin. Little Sprouts enjoyed reading Ten Little Monster by Priddy Books and Busy Diwali by Campbell books. We hope everyone has a Happy Halloween and a great weekend!
Beanstalks
What a wonderful two weeks we’ve had here in Beanstalks. Last week we continued discussing pumpkins . We really enjoyed putting faces on our paper jack-o-lanterns and washing our class pumpkin. We really enjoyed reading Spookly The Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano and singing Five Little Pumpkins. This week we’ve been so excited to talk about Halloween! We loved getting to talk about all the different ways we celebrate. We had a blast exploring the insides of our class pumpkin and using our fingers and sponges to paint it. Our favorite book this week was Woo! The Not So Scary Ghost by Ana Martin Larrañaga. We hope you all have a safe and happy Halloween, and we’ll see you next week!
Saplings
The Saplings class have had lots of fun during the last 2 weeks exploring pumpkins, learning about Diwali, and getting ready for Halloween. We really Set featured imageenjoyed using our hands to remove the seeds and pulp from our huge pumpkin – some of us loved getting messy others not so much but we all learned to take turns and wait patiently while others are having a turn. We learned about Diwali and made a tissue paper Rangoli. Picking up the tissue paper squares was a great activity to develop our fine motor muscles. This week we have been having fun talking about Halloween. We like to share what we are going to dress up as and what our favorite candy is. Our sensory boxes this week have had lots of spooky things in them and we have used tweezers and our fingers to pick them up. Our favorite books included Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin Picking Plan by Rob Scotton and Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington.
Pre-K 3
Pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins! The children have been getting elbows deep in their studies related to all things pumpkin. We have been counting pumpkin seeds, making pumpkin wreaths, and we even learned how to carve a pumpkin with Ms. Alicia & Ms. Deanna. Making a Jack-O-Lantern in school is just so cool! We also started getting ready for Halloween by singing spooky songs with Ms. Lisa and doing some Halloween themed yoga poses! The students have been focusing a lot on counting, matching, and patterns. They really loved doing their school work with leaves, candy corns, and even some scarecrows! Some of our favorite books have been Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White, Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree, Goodnight Goon by Michael Rex, There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat! by Lucille Colandro, and Ten Minutes to Bed Little Monster by Rhiannon Fielding.
Pre-K 4
The past two weeks Pre-K 4 has been learning about nocturnal animals and Halloween. We talked about a bat’s life cycle and other facts as well as the difference between nocturnal and diurnal animals. We read Stella Luna by Janell Cannon and Owl Bat Bat Owl by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick. The kids loved the story retells of Room On A Broom and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything. We wrote in journals about what we would catch in a web if we were a spider and what we are dressing as for Halloween. We also worked on number recognition and shape matching. Happy Halloween!