Halloween Carnival

We had a FUN FUN FUN Halloween Carnival at Preschool!!

The kids were SO EXCITED when they showed up in costumes to see a few "doubles"-- they get so excited when they see someone dressed up the same as them:)

We had fun painting our hands BLACK and painting spiders on our treat bags!

Then outside for FUN! Games, games and more games! Everyone was so well behaved, took turns, won prizes, cheered on their friends and filled their treat bags! THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE DONATIONS! It was very last minute this year and I want you to know how much I appreciated you all sending in goodies! They were so excited to share what they brought with their friends!

Donuts made for the perfect "snack" for our party and everyone went home with chocolate-y smiles!! And probably a little hyped up on sugar(sorry! haha!) 

We had such a FUN HALLOWEEN!!!

Halloween Fun

Table Time:
Rotations with 3 different table activities, that help build our fine motor skills.

Math: 

We started into our Math Workbooks this month! We will leave our workbooks at school for now, but since we have the basics of numbers down, we are reading to dive in deeper to learn more!

Arts & Crafts:

We made soft and spooky ghosts, by gluing cotton balls on to our ghost templates and then turned them in to necklaces:)

Theatrical Play:

Two at a time, we got to put on a "puppet show" with our ghosts and they did a GREAT job with their creative story telling!

Outdoor Play:
We added a little fun today with FACE PAINTING:)

Letter J

Show & Tell:

 A Jack-o-Lantern- perfect for October:)

Handwriting:

 We practiced our handwriting on the whiteboard in circle time today!

Outdoor Play: 

JUMP ROPE! We enjoyed learning a new rhyme and counting as we jumped...

"____________likes to jump. _____________likes to count.

____________knows his/her numbers. Listen as she/he counts." 

Followed by counting as high as they could go!

Literature: 

We read the book Jennie's Hat by Ezra Jack Keats out loud in circle time

Music: 

We learned the rhyme JACK & JILL WENT UP THE HILL with actions

We also learned "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" and they thought he had the funniest name:)

Arts & Crafts:

We made Jack-o-lanterns from Paper Plates AND we colored our own faces on little pumpkins!

Circle Time: 

We used Jack-O-Lantern faces on the white board to talk about emotions!  I drew a HAPPY, SAD, ANGRY, SILLY, and SCARED Jack-o-lantern and we talked about how we can handle different emotions and use our words when we are upset or sad, to tell others how we are feeling.

Letter I

Show & Tell: All sorts of creative things, but I snapped pics of Ironman and Ice in an Igloo!

Arts & Crafts: Icecream Cones - They decorated their own icrecream cone with "toppings"

Game: Relay with a play kitchen icecream cone, across the room at back. They had to focus on BALANCE, as each cone had 5 scoops of icecream!

Circle Time: "I am Special" - we talked about our differences and how we are all SPECIAL! We also measured ourselves in INCHES and then lined up from tallest to shortest in the class. They didn't understand why the oldest person, wasn't also the tallest?! Confusing for 4-5 year olds, but we talked about it and discussed how height and age don't always match up:)

Outdoor Play: We went on a hunt for INSECTS---and even found a couple!

Music: "Itsy Bitsy Spider" - and several other songs with INSTRUMENTS to play along with the rhythm of our music!

Letter H

Art Project:

We made a collage of Healthy Foods! We looked through magazines and talked about the differences between healthy foods and unhealthy foods and they did a good job of picking out the healthy things, cutting them out and gluing them on their collage!

School Spirit:

We had a fun HAT day to celebrate the letter H and I LOVED all of the hats that they wore! It was so fun to see them in them!

Outdoor Play:

We went outside and had some Hopping Races! They loved this and we got our exercise in for the day, hopping back and forth over and over again!:)

Circle Time:
We talked about feelings and what we can do when we are feeling Happy or Sad. We talked about different reasons we might feel those emotions. 

We talked a lot about Healthy Eating & Exercise! We shared ideas on how to keep our bodies healthy, including our teeth! We even shared ideas on how to keep our minds healthy.

Music: 

If you are Happy & You Know it

Old McDonald(Horse, Hen & Hog) 

Game/Activity:
We learned the Hokey Pokey and they LOVED it!

Letter G

Arts & Crafts:

We glued cereal onto our giraffes to make spots & we talked about what sounds we think a giraffe makes:) We came up with some fun noises!

Music:

We mixed it up and let the Wiggles do our music time! The kids loved following along and doing the actions with the songs!

Outdoor/Recess:

We enjoyed a game of Duck Duck Goose together!

Language/Literature:

We made letter "g's" with our leftover cereal after craft time and talked about the different sounds G can make.

I read a few different books out loud this week, including Goodnight Moon, Gullywasher Gulch and Grateful, we LOVE to read in preschool! I hope you are all taking the opportunity to read to your children at home.

Math:

We counted with PEGS & used our peg boards to create groups of numbers and talked about MORE and LESS.

Science:

We made our own gardens, start to finish! The kids enjoyed filling their pots with dirt, planting their flower seeds, covering the seeds with dirt & watering them! Oh...and we made sure to make them PRETTY by painting polka dots on them:) We had so much fun learning about things that Grow and what a plant needs in order to grow.  I hope they enjoy taking care of their gardens at home!