Week of October 28, 2024

 

🎃The Cutest Pumpkins in the Patch!!🎃

A Sneak Peek at our Week:  We are going to have such a fun week wrapping up our October themes, kicking off some November ones and celebrating Fall, Halloween and All Saints Day!!

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Ff
Number of the Month:  2
Color of the Month: Orange
Shape of the Month: Triangle
Monthly Themes: The Five Senses, Season of Fall, Counting 0-2, Sorting, Halloween, Fire Safety & Community Helpers, Pumpkin Science
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Helping and Caring for One Another👪Show and Tell📸: Friday, November 1st:  Please either email me or bring in a photo of your family that you will not be needing back.  We will be kicking off our Family Unit and will be using the photographs for a special class project.  Thank you!!

Dates to Remember:

October 30th: 🎃Halloween Parade and Party🎃 Halloween is on Thursday this year therefore we will celebrate on Wednesday morning so our entire class can participate. Please refer to the information sheets that came home through your child's backpack. Also, be sure to flip it over to see additional items on the back.  Please pay close attention to the "CHANGE IN PLAN" half sheet too!!

October 31st: Halloween Centers Day: Our Five Day Friends will be spending the day working on Halloween Centers.  They may wear their costumes to school or come dressed in Halloween colors.  Please pack a change of clothes if they come to school in costume.  We will be attending the Big School Parade as spectators (not participants) in the afternoon.  If you choose to take your child home after the parade, I will have a sign out sheet for you to sign your little spectator out.  Please let me know ahead of time so I can have them all packed up for you.  

November 11th: NO SCHOOL - Veteran's Day
November 15th: Class Picture Day and Retake Day (Remember to wear your biggest smile!!)

November 20th: 📚Literati Book Fair 📚- PreK Shopping Day (Only those shopping will attend.)

November 25-26:  PRESCHOOL will be in full session even though K-8 will have Noon Dismissals for conferences.  Our PreK Conferences will take place in January. 
November 27th: NOON DISMISSAL (No After Care)
November 28-29: NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break 

December 6th 10:00am:  🎅🎄PreK-3 and 4 Combined Christmas Show🎄🎅Please note that this is a noon dismissal day for the entire school.  Your child will be coming in later than usual and will be dismissed directly to you following our performance.  There will be no Before or After Care for PreK-3 since the teachers will be setting up and cleaning up from our special day. Details will be coming home soon.

December 20th: NOON DISMISSAL (No After Care)
December 23-January 1st: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break

Our Week in Photos:

📸 Here's A Little Snap Shot of Our Week📸 

FALL FUN!

Fall Fun Day was SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all of our volunteers for making our day so special!!

We started off our day by using FALL beads to sew necklaces!

They came out so beautifully!!

Then we bounced our way over to the BOUNCE HOUSE and PARACHUTE Stations!!

Then we headed over to the pumpkin patch to pick the cutest pumpkins!!

We found some great ones!!!

Then we were off to Fall Fun Playground Games!!

WOW did our volunteers really step up at this station!!

(Please sign up to substitute at our school, you are NATURALS!!)

Then we were off to the 🕷SPIDER🕷 Station!!!

🕷Who knew spiders could be so YUMMY?!?!?🕷

Then it was BACK TO THE BOUNCE HOUSE in the afternoon!!

🍁🍂What a "FALL" FUN FILLED DAY!!!!!🍂🍁

We used our sense of touch to explore our Sensory Bin this week!!

We found so many treasures!!

Our Five Day Friends made the cutest monsters this week!!

Can you guess which one is your little monster?!?

(Cheat sheet below...)

Did you guess correctly???

We had SO MUCH FUN dancing to 🎵"The Monster Mash!!!"🎵

We put the finishing touches on our Ee Books too!

We learned about how important our sense of touch is to people who lose their sense of sight.

We loved making our Touch Art Collages!

Then we got ready to get our hands DIRTY!!!

Be sure to ask your messy little monster all about it!!!

We wrapped up Letter Ee!!

And learned about special "HELPING" Jobs in our communities!  

We have been loving playing outside in this GORGEOUS weather!!

Our Seasonal Outfits are so cool!!!

We did such a great job making stick triangles!!

Then we painted them for a fun Triangle craft we're making next week!!

We learned so much about foxes this week too!!

The we made our own Letter F - Fox!!

Can you guess what they use to SEE?!?

FALL Show and Tell was such a BIG HIT!!

Great job everyone!!

We LOVED learning about SPIDERS!

And making our own too!

And loved modeling them too!!

We loved using our hands to sculpt our own spiders too!!

🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷

🕸We have the absolute cutest little creepy crawlers in our web!!!🕸

🍂🎃👻Happy Halloween!👻🎃🍂

                      Paula Dobres