October 26, 2012- Bats and Bones and Spiders, Oh my!

Halloween Party

• On Wednesday, we will be having our Halloween Party.  Please have your child bring his/her Halloween costume in a bag to school.  Please no face paint or "pretend weapons".

Highlights from the Week:

• Special Theme of the Week: Bats and Bones and Spiders, Oh my!
• Heart Word of the Week: a
• In language arts, we focused on identifying characters in books.  We also practiced asking ourselves questions while we read.  For example: I wonder why that happened?  What will happen next?  How will the book end? etc.
• In writing, we practiced using the heart word "like".  We wrote stories about things that we like.
• In math, we learned about tallies.  We practiced making tally marks with Popsicle sticks.  We also played a Bingo game to practice identifying numbers and quantities (E.g. a group of 5, a group of 2, etc.)
• During out theme time, we read books about bones, bats, and spiders.  We practiced some of our language arts strategies of identifying characters and asking ourselves questions.  In addition, we made a "Web of Kindness".  We rolled a ball of yarn to someone and said something nice about that person.  By the time we were finished, we created a spider web!
• At community centers, we are making spiders out of our hand prints.  We are also making skeletons out of macaroni!  Another new center is our "Mr. Pumpkin Head" center.  Here, we are using Mr. Potato Head parts to decorate a pumpkin!