Week of October 29-November 1

Week of October 29-November 1

Theme: Halloween

Color: Black

Letter: I

This week we finished up community helpers. Officer John came and visited the a.m. and p.m. classes. He read a story to each class and showed them some of the equipment he uses for his job such as his handcuffs, radio, flashlight and light stick. The children were very attentive to him while he was talking to them. On Monday the Brecksville Fire Department visited preschool. They showed the preschoolers some of their equipment as well as let them climb inside the firetruck to see what it looks like inside. The weather was great and everyone enjoyed this experience.

 





This week we will be celebrating Halloween and all things Fall.  We will be working on hand strength using large tongs to pick up Halloween eraser and placing them into small pumpkin pots. We will also be playing several Halloween games requiring the students to practice patterning and matching like objects. The students will be working on tracing lines and cutting straight and curved lines to follow a vine in the pumpkin patch. They will also be using string to paint a spider web and then will use their fingers to make the legs on their spider who will be in the spider web. The students will also be sorting Halloween shapes. We will follow directions to make a green Frankenstein monster .

We are going to read the story "The Chocolate Chip Ghost," and then we are going to make our own class book of "The Chocolate Chip Ghost." We are also going to read several other Halloween stories that the children will get to choose. We are also going to play a pumpkin beanbag toss game as well as practicing a pincer grasp to play a magnetic Halloween dart game.

On Monday we will be carving a pumpkin at school. We are going to measure how round our pumpkin is, we are going to weigh out pumpkin and we are going to estimate  how many seeds out pumpkin might have in it. Since the children will be participating in this even it may be a good idea to send them in clothes that you don't mind getting dirty or goopy.

On Wednesday, October 31 we are going to have our Halloween Party at school. This party is for the children only although parents will be invited to other events throughout the school year. Please send your children in their costume or send their costume with them to school that day. On that day we will do several fun activities including a parade around the school and up to the Board of Education Office (weather permitting). It is a fun filled exciting day for everyone.

If you are planning on placing a Scholastic order please remember that they are due by November 1st.
November 1st please have your child wear something Black to school.
November 1st Show and Share is something that starts with the letter I.