Pre-K Week 8

October 31, 2024

Dear PreK Families,

This week was full of Halloween Fun!  

We enjoyed learning about spiders and making some of these 8 legged creatures.  We continued our study of the book Big Pumpkin and learned to sequence the story with pictures.  A true highlight this week was learning our “Witches Brew” song by Hap Palmer.  The children learned the words quickly and enjoyed moving to the beat as they stirred their “Witch’s Brew”!  We also practiced cutting as we cut a pumpkin picture with the letters of our name and put the pieces back together like a puzzle.  

We attended our Creative Movement Class this week where we learned to bowl balls and knock down pins.  We carved a pumpkin as a class and voted as a class for  the shapes of the eyes, nose and mouth.  We used the seeds from our pumpkin to help us with counting practice.  We named our pumpkin “Jack-O-Lantern”  and he was part of our class meeting each day this week.  

This week we also wrote our first class book and illustrated all of the words and pages with pictures.  We named the book “No Noggin Eats Halloween Cake.”   The story is about a pumpkin named No Noggin who meets a unicorn for some adventure and at the end they all get to eat Halloween cake.  Quite an epic tale!

We ended our week on Halloween day with a lot of energy and excitement!   We had Halloween pretzels that we sorted by shape and enjoyed every bite.  We made a life sized scarecrow on the playground that we stuffed with leaves and made scarecrow faces at the art table.  By the end of the day, we were all ready for the exciting evening of Trick or Treating! 

Books we read this week Spiders by Gail Gibbons, I’m Trying to Love Spiders by Bethany Barton; Peppa Pig and the Halloween Costume, The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry; The Pumpkin who was Afraid of the Dark by Michelle Robinson; Trick or Treat by Leo Landry; Shape by Shape by Suse Macdonald; and Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman

**One request continued–we are in need of newspaper for art projects. We would appreciate some if you can send in with your child–thank you!

Enjoy the longer weekend and the time change!  See you Monday!

Love, Miss Jan, Miss Dana, and Miss Karen