It is hard to believe it is the end of October already! The time seems to be flying by. We began the week having fun with ghosts!! We did an experiment involving spinning ghosts. The children voted on which ghost they thought would spin. We counted and compared the numbers. Then the class discovered that the ghost with the paper clip and arms folded in opposite directions was the one that spun! Each child brought a ghost home. Try holding the ghost from different heights and letting it go to watch it spin. We also painted ghosts, named them and read the word BOO. After reading,
Ghost's Dinner, we played with different colored water using ice trays and pipettes, matched ghosts feeling cards, sat and spun on the sit and spins like spinning ghosts and colored ghosts using different colored crayons just like the story. We also used shaving cream to make our HWOT letters and some letters in our name. In addition, we felt white slime and cut it with scissors. Next Monday, we built a ghost pyramid and roll them down ramps. (sensory, fine motor, gross motor, letter recognition and formation)
We also sequenced pictures of how to make a jack-o-lantern. Then we used a spider ring to practice positional concepts. In addition, we used play-doh and spaghetti noodles to string spider rings. Everyone had fun going on a pumpkin letter hunt in the hallway! The sensory table contained water beads, googlie eyes and scoopers for a slimy and wet sensory experience! We also signed in to what we liked the best.....bats, ghosts or spiders. We then counted and compared the numbers. (recognizing letters and numbers, comparing, matching, sensory, fine motor, sequencing, positional concepts)
Next Monday, we will have fun learning and playing with skeletons through puzzles, play-doh and bones (straws), making letters out of bones (Q tips), counting bones (Q-tips), breaking bones (cutting white paper strips) and connecting bones ( PCV pipes). We will learn some important facts about bones such as they are used to support our body, our thigh bone is our largest bone, and the tip of our nose and earlobe do not have bones. (problem solving, letter and number recognition, one to one counting, cutting)
On Halloween, we will have fun with monsters! We will sort colored eyes, watercolor a monster, throw beanbags at the monster from our book, create monsters with play-doh and dried food, and use the felt pieces from the book,
Go Away Big Green Monster to make the monster and retell the story. Each student can make a monster by squirting paint on paper then folding it in half. I am sure we will discover some cool monsters as we open up the paper. We will add eyes and the students can dictate what the monster will eat based on the book,
There Was An Old Monster Who Swallowed A Tick.
The students also enjoyed feeling and cutting green cooked spaghetti noodles. The students also washed little pumpkins with soap and water and matched shapes to the correct pumpkin. (fine motor, safe behaviors, sensory, shapes, following directions)
Our letter of the week was U. We went over the sound and things that begin with this letter. As we made this letter and all the other letters we have learned, we focus on starting our letters at the top! The students traced this letter as we watched our video about the letter U!
Questions to Ask Your Child?
What color did the ghosts turn in The Ghost's Dinner? (all kinds of colors based on the food they ate)
What does B-O-O spell?
What did we wash using a toothbrush? (pumpkins)
What did we hunt for in the hallway using our clipboards? (letters)
What was your favorite thing to do at the pumpkin patch?
Books We Read:
Big Pumpkin
Ghost's Dinner
Reminders:
10/29 Magic House Halloween Party 6-8pm
10/31 Wear your costume to school. No masks and please wear gym shoes for playing outside
11/2 Hearing screening during school
11/7 No School Professional Development Day
11/9 Veteran's Day celebration during school
11/22-11/26 Thanksgiving Holiday Break
Next Week: Halloween and Fall
Halloween Pictures: Please email us one picture of your child dressed up in his/her Halloween costume next week. We will make a class book for our library so the kids can enjoy looking at each other!!
Things to work on:
Continue working on self help skills. (putting coat on, fixing sleeves and zipping)
Enjoy the pictures below! We had such fun learning, exploring and being together!
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| Big room fun! |
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| Find the pumpkin letters on our hunt! |
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| Sequencing steps to making a jack-o-lantern. |
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| Stringing spider rings! |
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| It was fun to wash pumpkins! |
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| We practiced positional concepts with spider rings! |
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| Water beads sensory! |
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| S for spider! |
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| We finished our pumpkins by tracing lines! |
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| We practiced making the letter C with gel bags! |
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| Music fun with fall leaves and pumpkin stew! |
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| We watched to see which ghost would spin! |
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| Letter U for umbrella! |
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| The 5 little ghost came out to play! |
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| We made jack-o-lanterns with tangram blocks. |
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| Each child practiced positional concepts with a spider book they will bring home Monday. |
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| Pretend flashlights in our bat cave! |
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After making spiders and adding the eyes,
we practiced making some letters in our name. |
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| This white ghost goop was a hit! |
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| After painting ghosts, we named them and practiced reading the word, BOO! |
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| It was fun to cut green spaghetti noodles! |
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We experimented with making colored water based on
our book, The Ghost's Dinner.
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The students picked different colored crayons to make their ghosts.
They told us what the ghost ate based on the color they made the ghost.
For example, the ghost ate cotton candy and turned pink! |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Fun at the pumpkin patch! |
