Halloween

We had a fun week talking about Halloween. We mixed cornstarch and water to make 'slime' (so if your child came home with white all over their clothes, that's what it was-we were a bit messy). We sorted Halloween candy into color groups, we made spiders, 5 little pumpkins, and ghosts. We read lots of Halloween stories and talked about he letter H and the color black. I can't wait to see all the kid in thier costumes on Friday!

Wild Things

My camera never made it down to the preschool this week, but the kids really enjoyed our Wild Things week. We focused on the letter R, the color brown, and stars. We also talking about what is real and what is pretend. The kids got to use their masks to act out the wild thing characters from the story along with my Max and Wild thing puppets. Look for all their Wild things on the wall next time you come to preschool!

Mice

We had some fun with mice this week. We worked a lot on counting and colors. The kids loved retelling the story "lunch" with all my giant pieces. They also love tell the story "Mouse Count" with the ten mice, the jar, and the snake.
They kids had a lot of fun with the 'mouse nest' that had numbered mice, cheese, toy mice, and things that start with M.
The classes made their own class book, each child contributing a page that says "if ____ were a mouse he would eat_____. Then they got to cover the mouse in colors of that food. They also used paint to dip toy mice in and make them dance all over the paper.
I think the favorite activity this week was copying the mouse from "if you take a mouse to school" and doing a purple explosion science experiment.-

mouse nest-

afternoon little mice-

and we continue to watch our magic beans turn into a beanstalk-

Pumpkins

This week we learned the process of growing a pumpkin, found lost of letter O's, counted slimy pumpkin seeds to 20, made jack-o-lanterns, used pumpkin stencils, and mixed yellow and red to make orange.
finding O's-

stencils-

making jack-o-lanterns-

making orange-

pulling out slimy seeds-

October Show and Tell

Oct. 4 - Something Orange
Oct. 11 - Something that starts with M
Oct. 18 - Something brown
Oct. 25 - Anything to do with Halloween

October Snack Schedule

Oct. 1 - Ian/Garen
Oct. 4 - Dayton/Carter
Oct. 6-Brynn/Alex
Oct. 8-No Preschool
Oct. 11 - Karsen/Branson
Oct. 13 - Weston/Roxy
Oct. 15 - Joseph/Preston
Oct. 18 - Eva/Max
Oct. 20 - Austin/Aniston
Oct. 22 - No Preschool-Parent/teacher confrences
Oct. 25 - Ellie/Kenslie
Oct. 27- Miss Emily
Oct. 29 - Halloween Party

Jack and the Beanstalk

We had a fun week reading Jack and the beanstalk. We played in magic beans, made our own beanstalks, learned big and little, worked on some rhyming, planted our own magic beans, learned the letter J, squares, and the color green.

PIZZA

We had a super fun week with Pizza and the letter P. We made pretend pizza, real pizza, playdough, puzzles, found pictures starting with P in the moonsand, and much more.

Here's our morning class with their mini pizza's-

afternoon class playing outside-

Giant group red paintings-

Feelings, Circles, blue, and the letter W

It was weird missing so many kids today in both classes. Hope everyone is feeling okay (I know a few were out of town).

Just so you know... a few things that have come home this week that you may not have recognized is a circle they cut out all on their own, Wheel tracks for the letter w, and circle sponge paintings. I really believe in letting the kids explore with the paints, sponges, scissors, or whatever the materials might on their own. I show them examples and make sure they are using the materials correctly, but I let them create. So if something doesn't look like it's suppose to, it's because I don't fix your child's work.

Today we had a fun day painting and making the bunny from our story, playing in moon sand, and drawing emotions on whiteboards. We read a lot of books about being happy, feeling sad, being grumpy, worried, and angry. Today we also enjoyed some nice weather and some bubbles while I tested the kids on their letters, shapes, and colors.

**Anytime you can send a snack that has to do with the letter of the week, the shape we are working on, or the color we are learning that would be great. Today one parent sent Watermelon and Whale crackers for the letter W and it really helped the kids learn it since they had to tell me what it started with everytime they wanted more. Thanks!

playing ball with my husband-

Important Dates

All dates are subject to change:

October 8-No School
October 22-No School/Parent-Teacher conferences
October 29-Halloween party
November 5-No School
November 24-Thanksgiving Feast
November 26-No School/Thanksgiving break
December 3-No School
December 20-Christmas party
December 22-31-No School Christmas Break
January 3-school resumes
January 17-No School-Martin Luther King Day
February 11 -No School
February 14-Valentines Party
February 21-No School-President's Day
February 25 - No School- Parent/Teacher Conferences
March 25- No School
April 8 - No School
April 22-26-No School-Spring Break
May 18-Last day of Preschool in the classroom
May 20-Preschool Graduation practice
May 23-Preschool Graduation 10:00-12:00
May 25-Pool Party

Just so you know...

I think it is so important to talk to your child about their day. So I will try to let you know of the things we did in our preschool day so if your child forgot or doesn't want to talk about it you can strike up the conversation.
Today we tried out stencils (space stencils), added glitter and stickers to our planet paintings, read 10 little wishing stars, found stars in the rice, drew our faces inside a space helmet, and blew bubbles.

Sorry I didn't have my camera available in my morning class but here are some precious moments from the afternoon class-
quiet reading(usually minus the quiet)-

playtime-