Friday, October 14

We had music with Miss Caitlin today.  In addition to practicing our Halloween songs, we sang our Hello song and got to shake hands with our neighbors.  There was some more shaking going on in just a few minutes...If you click on the link to the video below, you'll see us doing some fancy moves with our musical shakers!


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After music we went outside to enjoy the beautiful weather.  It was so nice to not worry about rain!



When we came in we washed all of the germs off of our hands, then enjoyed the delicious snack that Lily brought in for us.  The applesauce was a real treat!



The last thing we did on this silly mixed-up Friday was go to centers.  At our rug center we palyed with the dollhouses and construction set.  With Miss Kathleen we explored some science materials with our magnifying glasses.  Some of us also wanted to see what our fingers, friends, and clothes looked liked when magnified!  We made spider hats with Mrs. Hennessy.  These weren't quite dry yet so we have to wait until Monday to bring them home.










Scholastic-Kellogg's Book Offer

We'll be sending home a new set of book orders in a couple of weeks, so you might want to keep your eyes open for the specially marked boxes of cereal!

Free $5 book offer from Scholastic

Pumpkin Patch

We love field trips! 

Everybody loved the silly Halloween story.

When is the hayride going to begin???

Everybody say, "Happy Halloween!"

That was fun!

Hmmm...Which pumpkins should we pick?

Look at our pumpkins!


This is really high!

We're almost to the top!

 



Working on our pumpkin faces

Guess who?



Yum!

Monday, October 10

We were so busy today that Miss Kathleen forgot to get her camera out!  Rainy days will do that sometimes. After our morning work we came up to the rug; talked about our calendar; sang a song about Johnny Appleseed; said our Pledge of Allegiance: and sang Salute the Flag.  Then we took a bathroom break and came back for centers.

At our rug center we played with our construction set and our dollhouse.  It's the first time we've had these out and we had a lot of fun with them.  Our center with Mrs. Hennessy was messy!  We made paintings with apples!  We used an apple half along with red, green and yellow paint to make some beautiful designs.  Miss Kathleen let us play with tangrams at her center while she asked some of us to find our names on the tables and tell her about colors and shapes.

Because it was raining we couldn't go outside so we watched a video about Johnny Appleseed.  Did you know he wore a pot on his head as a hat?  That was one of our favorite parts!  Here's the Johnny Appleseed song that we sang today if you want to sing it at home.


HERE COMES JOHNNY APPLESEED
Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Here comes Johnny Appleseed,
Appleseed, Appleseed,
Here comes Johnny Appleseed,
Walking all around.
See him plant his apple seeds,
Apple seeds, apple seeds,
See him plant his apple seeds
Deep down in the ground.
When his seeds grow into trees,
Into trees, into trees,
When his seeds grow into trees,
Standing oh, so high,
Watch him pick some apples red,
Apples red, apples red,
Watch him pick some apples red
As he goes walking by.

Friday, October 7

Our Friday was so exciting!  We started out practicing the Pledge of Allegiance and Salute the Flag; then had some outside time; came in and had music with Miss Caitlin; then worked on making our shirts for our pumpkin patch field trip (and having centers.)  But we weren't finished yet!  We still had a special treat with our birthday girl.  As you can see, we especially liked the frosting!

Thank you to everyone who came in and helped out!










Wednesday, October 5

Our tangrams continue to prove popular at our morning work tables.  This morning we also had some new puzzles out today.  Our last morning picture shows a "game" that some of us have been playing the last few mornings.  We'll put our bookbags in a friend's cubby and then see if our friends can help us find our own name on our cubby.  (It's really funny to see how many giggles this simple game causes!)







We've started reading some books for Fire Prevention month, so at one of our centers we played with our fire/rescue station.  At another center we put black spots on our dalmatians, also known as the firehouse dog.  We're still using our puppets on our rug center--and on Friday, we'll have a puppet theater to use with them!







Monday, October 3

We had something brand new out at our tables for morning work today: tangrams.  We were fascinated by them!  We stacked them, sorted them, compared them, and talked about the various colors and shapes.  We used words like square, diamond, trapezoid, and hexagon!  They were such a hit at our morning table that Miss Kathleen decided to switch one of today's centers to give us more time to interact with tangrams.  (If you'd like more information on tangrams, you can click on this link or just google!  http://www.brightkidsworld.com/Preschool_Pre_K_Spatial_Skills_Tangram_Puzzles_Gifted_Kids_s/441.htm )


Here we are at our tangram center.  Some of us completed tangram pictures by following the patterns on the tangram cards.  We continued to practice our geometry words and counted how many of each shape we were using.



At our rug center we had our puppets and our castle blocks out to play with.  If you look closely you can see that the shark puppet has one of the people puppets in its mouth!  One of the rules at this center is that we have to be nice to our friends and their puppets.  As George explained, "It's OK.  This one isn't a friend!"


Here we explored our sensory tub filled with oatmeal.  We made a little bit of a mess, but we had a lot of fun scooping, measuring, pouring, and comparing.  We also spent some time searching for things buried in the oatmeal:  We found acorns, glass beads, tiny pumpkins and lots more.