Hats and Halloween

Sorry for the delay in updating the blog, so we'll do two weeks at once.

On HAT DAY we read the story "Hats for Sale" by Esphyr Slobodkina, about a peddler who carries all the the caps he is selling on top of his head; they are stolen by monkeys, and he has to figure out how to get them back. We took turns stacking our hats on each other's heads.

We've been doing a lot of fun Halloween songs and games, and of course working on our letters - H and G. We've also done 3 more pages for the color books. We did cutting and folding to make a BLACK spider page. We did stencilling to make our WHITE ghost page. Then we did fingerpainting mixing yellow and red to make ORANGE for a pumpkin page.

A is for Apple and Autumn

Thanks for remembering to send the apples and autumn leaves this week. We sorted the apples, peeled them, tasted them, and made them into apple sauce.

We also sorted the beautiful autums leaves, and made hand trees with torn paper. (This was a challenging small motor activity for some of the kids.)

We also finished two more pages for our color book.

Special Thanks!

I just wanted to say a great big thank you to Mikinley's mom for bringing her pet turtle, Shelly to our Friday class! I was amazed at her long toes/claws. What a fun experience.

We also had a very fun and unique snack in our Thursday class - Thanks Garrett's mom. We had fish crackers and fishing poles (pretzel sticks). We caught the fish with peanut butter bait. YUM

Fun with Frogs and Turtles

Here are some of the frog and turtle activities we did this week

Guess Who!

B Week

We loved making beautiful butterflies













Here is one of the bugs in a jar that we observed during the week










Blowing Blue Bubbles (we are saving these at school for a color book)













Ask your child to do the actions for this Bee poem:

Here is the beehive, but where are the bees?
Hiding inside where nobody sees.
Watch them come creeping now out of the hive.
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - BUZZZZZZZ

M week

M is for...





































Marble Maze
Macaroni
Measuring
Magnets
Marching to Music
Musical Chairs

These are just a few of the ways we explored the letter "M" this week. The first handwriting page came home this week. Don't be too concerned if the pages are not complete. Some of the children are really working to strengthen those small muscles - and little hands get tired quickly. If some of the letters aren't finished, you should encourage your preschooler to do the rest as "homework". You'll see great improvement as the year progresses.