We had another great week with our Halloween activities! This week we had fun with monsters and mummies! We sorted colored eyes based on the color of the monster, watercolored a monster, threw bean bags at the monster from our book, created monsters with small plastic pieces in playdoh and used felt pieces from the book, Go Away Big Green Monster to make the monster and retell the story. Each student made a monster by using spoons to paint on paper then folding it in half. We discovered some cool monsters as we opened up the paper. The students added eyes and dictated what the monster ate based on the book, There Was An Old Monster Who Swallowed A Tick. We then focused on mummies! After reading a story about mummies, we made a mummy by tearing toilet paper and glueing it on a person. We also played with slime and practiced counting halloween items and finding the correct number. During center time we played Halloween Bingo, built a large tractor puzzle, colored on black butcher paper on the floor with oil pastels, played a gum ball grab game, a number game and made a witches broom using beads. In addition we signed in to what was the student's favorite number. (counting, recognizing numbers, problem solving, fine motor, using language, following 2 step directions, matching, comparing numbers)
Our letter of the week was the letter O. We discussed as a number, it is zero and as a shape, it is an oval. During our 2nd Steps lesson, we learned when an accident happens with another friend, we say we are sorry, it was an accident. During gym we were flying like ghosts, walking like mummies, crawling like spiders and flying like a bat. (gross motor, answering questions, identifying emotions, letters, letter sound)
Books We Read
Go Away Green Big Monster
There Was An Old Monster
Monster Trouble
The Little Mummy
There is No Such Thing As Monsters
Love Monster
There Was An Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin Picking Plan
Questions to Ask
1. Do you like monsters? Are they real?
2. What does a witch use to get around? (a wagon or a broom)
3. What job do you do this week?
4. What was in our sensory table? (little colored water balls)
Reminders
Tuesday 11/4 No School Professional Development Day
Friday 11/7 Fall Fling 6:00-9:00 Tropicana Lanes
Monday 11/17-Thursday 11/20 Our own Hippo canned food drive
Wednesday 11/26-Sunday 11/30 Thanksgiving break
Things to do at home
When reading books look at the characters facial expressions and identify how they are feeling and why.
Enjoy the pictures!
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| Number stamps |
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| Halloween Bingo |
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| Making a witch's broom out of beads. |
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| Walking like a mummy in gym class. |
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| Art party! |
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We used props to tell the story
There Was An Old Lady Who Wasn't
Afraid of Anything. |
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| Halloween costume! |
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| Halloween Parade! |
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| Hippo Costumes! |
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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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We played a gum ball grab game using
finger grabbers. |
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It was fun to make pictures using oil pastels on
black butcher paper. |
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We played a number game by rolling the dice,
counting the circles and then
placing the eraser on the correct number. |
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We played with chalk during one of our outdoor days.
Felix made a duck! |
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| Pumpkin Stew |
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Tracing the letter P and working on writing some
letters in our names without a model. |
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| Tuesday was Apple Crunch Day for our school. |
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Blocks and battery powered tea lights for making
haunted houses. |
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| We made mummies by tearing toilet paper and adding eyes. |
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| Noodles and scissors |
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| Moving eyes using skeleton arms. |
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We looked at cards and decided if it was a pattern
or not. |
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| Problem solving using teamwork! |
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| We made eyes for our monster picture. |
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| Placing pumpkins in numerical order. |
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| Go Away Big Green Monster!! |
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| Throwing shape bean bags at the monster. |
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| Water Bead Fun!! |
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After painting one side of the paper using spoons, we folded
the paper over, then rubbed it and discovered a monster
when opening up the paper. |
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We practiced drawing pumpkins, ghosts and spiders
in our journals. |
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| Sorting monster eyes. |
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The students made the monster by
looking at the book. |
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| We used spoons for painting to make our monsters. |
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| We practiced making the letter U! |
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| Tracing S then making 4 legs on either side to make a spider. |
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| Cutting pretend bones. |
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| We practiced tracing lines to make a spider web. |
