Friday, October 30, 2026

Halloween Continued


We had another great week with our Halloween activities! This week we had fun with mummies! After reading a story about mummies, we made a mummy by tearing kleenex and glueing it on a person. During center time we played Halloween Bingo, made monsters with playdoh and plastic pieces, played a shape and gum ball grab game, weighed pumpkins, and made a witches broom using beads. In addition we practiced patterning after reading our book about monster patterns. (problem solving, fine motor, using language, following 2 step directions, matching, shapes, patterns)

Our letter of the week was the letter O. We discussed it looks like the number zero and as a shape, it looks like an oval. During our 2nd Steps lesson, we learned people can have different feelings about the same activity. For example, Susie was scared of the dentist and Sammy was happy to see the dentist.  During gym we were flew like ghosts, walked like mummies, crawled like spiders and flew like  a bat. (gross motor, answering questions, identifying emotions, letters, letter sound)

Books We Read

How to Catch a Monster

The Old Lady Who Was Afraid of Nothing

Monster Patterns

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. In the book about the old lady, was she scared of the clothes or the pumpkin head? (Pumpkin head)

Reminders

Tuesday 11/3-No School Professional Development Day

Friday, 11/13 -  The LPA is hosting their Fall Fling event Friday, November 13th from 6-9 at the Budweiser 703 club at Busch stadium. Funds raised at the event support teachers’ classroom funds for the entire school year. If you only attend one LPA event this school year, make it this one! Can’t find a sitter? We’re partnering with WashU grad students to help make connections. See the link below for tickets and more info. Fall Fling 2026

Wednesday 11/25 -No school Thanksgiving Break-we return to school on Monday, 11/30

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!

Art Fun



We made monsters out of plastic monster pieces
and playdoh.


Journal.... What are you going to be for Halloween?

We colored leaves for our, LECC We Belong Day that
is next week.

We strung beads to complete the witches broom.







These are our props we used as we read the story
about the little old lady. 

Halloween Parade









Here are pictures from the pumpkin patch!
















We built fences for our pumpkins.


We practiced our shapes by playing our shape path game.

We used tongs to grab the gum balls and place them in 
the gum ball machine.


We practiced the correct steps in using watercolors. 







We made mummies out of tissues.


Everyone loved playing Halloween Bingo!

The students weighed pumpkins. 


We made spiders by coloring 
over a spider stencil. We used the crayon sideways
to rub over the spider.