Pumpkins, Spiders, and Christmas? Oh my!

Pumpkins

We had a fun week exploring (and exploding!) pumpkins.

Students worked on those important hand-eye coordination skills by hammering golf tees into pumpkins. We were impressed by how well of some them could manipulate a hammer!

During circle time, we build our language skills through stories and songs. The students loved helping us add characters to the felt board story! Here is an action poem we learned; try it at home! 

The Pre-K students loved making fizzy pumpkin art so much last week that we thought we'd try some more sciency fun with real pumpkins! Students learned how to do a step-by-step process and we saw some pretty neat results! Our recipe for pumpkin volcanoes is: 

First, add a squeeze of dish soap.

Next, pour in a cup of baking soda.

Last, pour in a cup of vinegar.

Look what happens!

Spiders

After singing, a familiar spider action song to build our literacy skills, we created some cool spider web art using a marble. Students carefully moved their pan so the marble would roll through the black paint making a web effect wherever it rolled. It was a neat way to see cause and effect in action. Check out our webs below!

Zones of Regulation

We started to introduce the Pre-K class to the 4 zones of regulation. We started off by talking about different feelings we have and the best zone for learning and playing (green). Miss Kayla read us a story about feelings and we created a Feelings Face with food that was also a pretty fun snack! 

Christmas 

Yes, you read that right! We did a bit of Christmas Art this week to prepare for a special fundraiser Robina Baker does each year. The kids create a unique piece of art that is made into Christmas cards. We will post a preview soon and you will have the opportunity to order a set of your child's cards, if you'd like. 

Halloween!

October 31st: Halloween Party!  All students are welcome! Students can dress up. We will be having a school-wide Halloween parade in the gym at 9 am, followed by a party in the Pre-K classroom. Our afternoon class will do their costume parade at 12:45 pm. Thank you to the parents who volunteered to carve pumpkins with us! We have a few parents bringing special snacks, thank you parents! You do not need to send snack on this day unless you think your child would prefer to bring something familiar. 

See more Pics from our week by clicking here. 

Coming Up!

November 1st: PD Day, No School

November 7th and 8th: Early Dismissal

November 12: Mid-term Break, No School