Afternoon Halloween Party

The Halloween party was a blast. The kids were super cute and they got to decorate cupcakes, make trick-or-treat bags, play Halloween bingo, and graph M&M's. We played Don't eat Pete and, build a skeleton, sang lots of Halloween songs, and had bubbling witches brew, Carmel apple, witches broomsticks, and cheese for snack.
Thank you to all the parents who came and helped and who brought food and other things!

Morning Halloween Party

Our Halloween party was a success! The kids looked great and they got to make chocolate pretzels, make a pumpkin face, decorate cookies, play musical pumpkins, play find the skeletons bones, of way to much sugar, and sing some spooky songs! Thanks for all the parents who helped out and brought stuff!!!

my witches bubbling brew-

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.