FANTASTIC FRIDAY 10-28-16

~FREE CHOICE LEARNING~
There was a great deal of fun with flubber going on in our classroom on Friday!

 
 Andrew and Alex enjoying books in the Book Nook.

Children dipped the sticks we found on our nature hikes last week into paint to use for future activities.

We decorated our letter "M" with monkeys!

 Robert enjoys building with new materials in the Construction Zone.
 
Anahi and Layla practice their fine motor and eye-hand coordination skills.

~SPANISH CLASS~
On Friday, Alex's mom visited our Spanish class to share about the Mexican holiday, Dia de los  Muertos (Day of the Dead).

~PUMPKIN MATH~
Children were provided with unifix cubes and instructed to estimate how many unifix cubes would be equal to the height of the pumpkin.

Each child held the pumpkin and made an estimate as to how much the pumpkin weighed.  Ms. Penney gave them a "reference" by explaining that a newborn baby weighs about 7 pounds.   Next week, we will weigh the pumpkin to determine its actual weight.

~PUMPKIN "I SPY"~
After estimating the height and weight of the pumpkin, children moved on to a sensory experience with the "insides" of a pumpkin.  Children were provided with a ziplock bag filled with the insides of a pumpkin and various Halloween objects hidden throughout.  Each time a child spied one of the Halloween objects, he/she recorded it on a recording sheet.
 

~NUMBER WRITING~
We put away the pencils and paper and practiced writing numbers in shaving cream!

WEDNESDAY 10-26 and THURSDAY 10-27

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 10-26-16

ASK ME ABOUT...

...the new greeting we did during Morning Meeting (Jump In!  Jump Out!)

...what we used to decorate the letter G and g.

...what numbers I learned and practiced writing.

...what we did in Music.

...what books Mrs. Arner read to us at the library.

...what book I checked out from the library.

...what numbers we learned and practiced writing.

 

 ~NUMBER WRITING~

We learned and practiced writing the numbers 3 and 4.

~FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Following are some new activities introduced during Free Choice time.

Our new "name detective" activity has been a huge hit! 

Around the classroom are stars with the children's names on them.  Using a "recording sheet", Children search the classroom for the names and highlight each name on a recording sheet.  There are even special glasses the children can wear when searching for the names.

 

 During the month of October, we have been learning a pumpkin poem.  This week children can "illustrate" the poem.

 

 

Decorating the letter "G" with gold glitter.

 

 Ruth and Andrew play a new pumpkin game.

THRILLING THURSDAY 10-27-16

ASK ME ABOUT...

...where we did P.E. and what we did.

...how many days we've been in school.

...what we did to celebrate Zero the Hero Day!

...the story, Cat's Colors.

...the graph we did on favorite colors.

~FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Nola counts the pumpkins in the counting basket.  There were 100!

 Andrew exercises his spatial reasoning skills.

 ~COLORS~

We read the story, Cat's Colors, and learned Cat's favorite color.  Then, we made a graph of our classmates' favorite colors.

 Ask your child to tell you about our color graph.  In class, we discussed the concepts of most, least and equal and applied them to our graph.

 ~ZERO THE HERO~

We celebrated our 40th day of school today!  Ruth's family provided us with zero-shaped photo frames to decorate to help us celebrate.  Thank you for a fun activity!

We now have four ten-rods in our pocket!

 We have filled up four ten-frames with star stickers!

 

 ~EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~

Today was a Discovery Day and we made flubber.  We mixed together water, liquid glue and liquid starch.  We also added some glitter to the mixture.  The children enjoyed observing the mixture change from a liquid to a solid.