Room #13
First Step Preschool
October 27 – October 31 Mrs. Fajt, Mrs. Cannavino, Mrs. Gaughan
Contact Information Dates to Remember: Theme: for Mrs. Fajt: 440-885-8645 • October 30----Halloween Party Halloween [email protected]
• November 4-----NO SCHOOL
• November 6-----Picture Day Reflections… • November 18-----NO SCHOOL The children did a great job helping to sequence how
• November 19-----Mr. Glenn Assembly pumpkins grow in conjunction with our story this past week. We also began acting out the “5 Little Pumpkins” • November 22-----PTA Wing Ding finger play with pumpkin stem headbands this week. The children really enjoy the opportunity to take on a • November 26-----NO SCHOOL role in the poem and say their line aloud for their classmates. We look forward to sending home all of • November 27-----NO SCHOOL your child’s pumpkin and Jack O’Lantern items from art
• November 28-----NO SCHOOL this week so you can enjoy them together at home!
What’s happening this week?
Reminders: This week will be filled with Halloween fun. We’ll be learning Halloween Send your child’s Halloween songs, reading a Halloween story and costume and any treats you wish to having our Halloween party on provide on Thursday! Thursday. During our Halloween party we will play some Halloween themed (please send to school in a plastic bag games, make and enjoy a special snack, labeled w/child’s name. Remember: NO and then trick-or-treat in the school small accessories that could be easily lost or weapons should be sent to school) hallways (sponsored by PTA). Story of the Week This week’s story will be Five Little Bats Flying in the Night by Steve Metzger and illustrated by Laura Bryant. In this story 5 little bats are having fun when they begin to get hurt one by one. Mama bat must then call the doctor and the number of bats flying around continues to decrease until no little bats are flying in the sky any longer. Mama Bat then calls the doctor who tells the little bats that they can again fly in the sky. (Similar to the traditional rhyme “5 little monkeys jumping on the bed”)
Circle Time Art Monday (P.M.) 5 Little Pumpkin Sitting on a Gate project During “circle” this week we will read Five Little Bats Flying in the Night. Tuesday Ghost Windsock
Wednesday Ghost Handprint page for poem of the week We will sing a “Spooky Walk” song Thursday Party day—NO art this week as well as a song about “Melvin the Skeleton” in preparation Friday (A.M.) 5 Little Pumpkin Sitting on a Gate project
for our party games on Thursday.
This Week’s Thematic Play Materials…
Classroom Library: Books about fall, pumpkins, Halloween, and more!
Dramatic Play: Various Halloween costumes and props to practice dressing skills and create various role play schemes
Blocks & Carpet Toys: Wood blocks, Legos, cardboard blocks, train track
Free-choice Art: Easel painting, drawing on chalk board, drawing on dry erase board
Writing: Scissors, glue, pencils, crayons, markers
Sensory Dough: Orange GAK with Halloween cookie cutters and other manipulating tools
Sensory Table: Corn with Halloween themed items to explore
Puzzles: Various kinds of puzzles with varying degree of difficulty are always available
Poem of the Month Extra Info: “Little Ghost” Color of the Week: Black (Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)
Shape of the Week: Rectangle The little ghost flies around on Halloween, “Boo! Boo!” Number of the Week: 9 He’s white and he tries to scare me, Letter of the Week: D d “Boo! Boo!”
This week we will be making Jack O’Lantern Oh his favorite thing is to soar, quesadillas during our Halloween party. We So he tries to scare us some more, will also have cookies and juice for the party. But we just keep on trick-or-treating!