Week of October 27-30, 2014

Week of October 27-30, 2014

Theme: All About Fall & Halloween

Letter of the Week: H

Dear Families,

This coming week we will be celebrating fall and doing some fun Halloween related activities. We are going to be working on our fine motor skills while we pick up small fall erasers with tongs and sort them by type. We are also going to use the small fall erasers to practice counting and placing the correct number of erasers in the numbered pumpkin. We will also be Q-tip painting bats and making a tissue paper candy corn.  

One of the stories we will read this week is the Chocolate Chip Ghost.  We will use props to retell the story and then we will create a book page about what our ghost ate and what color it changed to.  Some other stories include: Big Pumpkin, and If You're a Monster and You Know It.  Both of these stories are fun and allow the children to be part of the stories through movement and cooperation. 

In the gym this week we are going to play a Halloween movement game and play a spider web game.  The children will have to walk on the lines of the spider web to capture all of the spiders in the spider web games.  In the Halloween movement game the children will draw cards and use their bodies to move like different things. 

On Thursday is our Halloween party.  Please have your child wear or bring their costume to school if they are choosing to wear one. Please remember not to send in any pretend weapons as they are not allowed at school. This party is just for the children as there are some children who become quite overwhelmed when there are many unfamiliar faces in one place.  There will be opportunities at the Thanksgiving Feast, the Holiday party and the end of the year party for parents to come participate with their children at a school event.  If at anytime you would like to visit the classroom to see what your child is doing at school please contact me and we can set up a date and time.  Please know that often times when you visit your child will act differently then they typically do during a school day. 

The afternoon class would like to welcome our new friend Pradyush to our class.  In the housekeeping area I have placed small notebooks and pencils and both classes have been really engaged using these materials in a variety of ways. The morning class has been pretending to be reporters "writing" stories about what is happening, so if you see small sheets of paper coming home with "writing" on them please ask your child what his/her news story is about.  The afternoon class has been using them to take orders and make lists.  Both of these activities are fabulous imaginary play and demonstrate developmentally appropriate early writing skills. 

Upcoming dates:

October 27th-Please send in non-edible treats for the Halloween Trick or Treat at school. 

Show and Share: Wednesday, October 29th (typically Show and Share is on Thursday but because of the party I have moved it to Wednesday for this week.)

Special Snack Letter H-October 29th provided by Zach

October 30th-Halloween Party