Halloween!

What a fun Halloween celebration this morning! Such great costumes, SO much fun! Thanks for all the parents who came along and trick-or-treated with us! Enjoy some pictures from our party, as well as some cute shots from outside time this week! 

Our Halloween party is this Friday from 10:15-11:15! Please bring your child in their costume for neighborhood trick-or-treating and a halloween party at school!

Week of: October 24-28
Theme: Halloween
Social Learning Goal: Taking turns
Spanish Learning Goal: Manner words
Academic Learning Goal: Phone numbers, letter H/h, letter E/e

Books:
A Woggle of Witches
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever 
Arthur's Halloween 

 Activities:
Group Halloween story
Spider web
Rhyming web
H detectives
Spook-e-Doo
Lima bean math
Halloween memory

Ariann's Project: Pumpkin patch prints and handprint ghosts (M, T), Funnybones and skeletons (W), tissue paper pumpkins (Th)

Julie's Project: Patters/counting (M, T, W)
AJ's Project: Trick-or-Treat bag decorating (M,T, W)

Authors

Week of: October 17-21
Theme: Authors
Social Learning Goal: Sharing with others
Spanish Learning Goal: Manner words
Academic Learning Goal: Letter M/m and A/a, #1-10 recognition, Begenning sounds of M and A, AB/ABC Patterns

Books:
We are in a Book 
The Going to Bed Book 
Jumanji 
Lady Lupins Book of Etiquette 
Mothergoose Rhymes 
Over the Rainbow 
A Giraffe and a Half 
Golidlocks and the Three Bears 
Pinkalicious 


Activities:
Book chart
Vowel song
Erase the number
Erase the sound
Mystery bag

Ariann's Project: Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse and Leo Lionni inspired project (M, T, F), Reading group (W), We are Authors (TH)

Julie's Project: Group storybook (M, T, W) and Eric Carle inspired books
AJ's Project: Roosters off to See the World (M, T, W), Papa, Please Get me the Moon and moon project (F)

Fall

Week of: October 10-14
Theme: Fall
Social Learning Goal: Using manners
Spanish Learning Goal: Manner words
Academic Learning Goal: AB patterns, sorting by size, #1-10 recognition, letter F/f

Books:
Leaf Man 
The Acorn and the Oak Tree 
The Busy Little Squirrel 
Ferdinand 
Leaf Magic 
We're Going on a Leaf Hunt 


Activities:
In Fall (predictable chart)
Pasta count
F Mystery Bag
F Poem
Pass the basket (number recognition)
Find the letter F
Sorting by size

Reading group:
The Leaves 
New sight words: are, the

Ariann's Project: Paper bag trees, leaf press

Julie's Project: Fall leaf collage (M, T, W), arm and handprint trees (Th), sun catcher trees
AJ's Project: Pumpkin muffins