Newsletter for the Week of October 28th

by Melissa Roskelly on November 2, 2019

Review of the Week

This week was a fun filled week filled with lots of fall talk and fun activities.
Our book of focus this week was Spookley the Square Pumpkin! This story has a theme that focuses on not judging someone by the way they look. We talked about how everyone looks differently and how that just makes us unique. We made our own square pumpkin and wrote a descriptive sentence about our unique pumpkins! We also read Pete the Cat and the Five little Pumpkins on Halloween and made a picture of our own 5 little pumpkins and Pete.
We created some fun Frankenstein’s for a Halloween craft as a decoration for our room!
We played a Math Game that reinforced our topic about numbers that are more and less. Each student got multiple turns to roll a dice to get a number. Then we looked at our number chart and found which number is less, and which number is more than, the number on our dice. We also counted with 1-1 correspondence while making a pumpkin!
We spent a lot of time with our friend from Mrs. Kubert’s Class. They came over at the beginning of the week to make pumpkin pie in a cup, and have some sensory fun with a pumpkin.
On Halloween we got to go Trick-Or-Treating and visited some of our friends in the High School program. We also had a party where we pinned the nose on a pumpkin, we hammered light sticks into a pumpkin, and tried to score some points by tossing bean bags into pumpkin buckets. Our friends from Mr. Jason’s class and Mrs. Kubert’s class came over to join in on the fun too!
Our beans and grass has successfully started to sprout and grow! This week we moved our beans from the windows into cups and hope to have some bean plants pop up soon! As an addition to our pumpkin theme this week we talked about the life cycle of pumpkins and made a little book to go along with it.
We reviewed our letter D and created a D is for Dinosaur craft.