Reminder

Wednesday 10/30  4:30 - 6:30pm:  TRUNK OR TREAT

Thursday 10/31  1:30pm: Halloween Parade 

Our classroom is screaming: "It is October"!!

The children and I have been engaging in fun and not too scary educational activities during the last two weeks.  

We started with the story  "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams.  In this just-spooky-enough tale, an old lady puts to good use some animated objects that are trying to frighten her. Through this delightfully fun story the children worked on their predicting and sequencing skills, as well as learning about the literary technique of using sound words (onomatopoeia) to make stories more appealing: The boots go "CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP", the shirt goes, "SHAKE SHAKE". Our reading lead us further into our discussion of scarecrows and compound words. We ended our week by creating our very own "scare+crow" and wrote about what it might scare away?

 

This week we listened to Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.  It is an adorable book about a lost little bat who learns a big lesson about friendship. Through this friendship he learns (& so do we) how he (bat) and his new friends (birds) are similar and how they are different. Together we made a chart about all the things we knew and learned about bats. To further satisfy our curiosity about these nocturnal creatures we read more books, watched videos, and went on an excursion with the Magic School Bus in Going Batty. With all this b-a-t talk this week, we went batty with our rhyming skills. We played a rhyming game from Starfall on the Smart Board and then displayed some of the -at word family words on bats and hung them in the haunted hall. The children were introduced to the vowels by singing along to Vowel Bat....always a kindergarten favorite. We concluded our fascinating study about bats by somewhat independently writing our very first nonfiction book in writer's workshop; All About Bats. We beautifully depicted bats in the night sky through sponge painting, to accompany our books and are proudly displaying our work in the classroom.

 

Next up is spiders and everything Halloween!