October 24

Special Event:  October Soiree. We will celebrate Autumn with special activities.  The children are welcome to wear a special shirt, dress or costume on Thursday, October 27th.

Our Stories for this week include:

Possum's Moon                                                                   

The Button Box   - Just like in this story, we used my grandmother's button box to explore a variety of buttons.  Then we began to sort them by color, size, texture etc.                                                                         

Harvest Party

Handwriting -

Snipping Orange Paper to glue on to a pumpkin

Coloring Book pages

Small Groups - 

Letter Tracing on Pumpkins

Lacing Pumpkins

Roll a Jack O Lantern

Choice Time:
Dramatic Play - Playing Dress Up

Rug - Playing with large trucks
Art - Painting Corduroy and Decorating Pumpkins
Sensory - Sorting foam pieces - letters and numbers
Math Center - Making necklaces with beads.  Children will select a card and add the correct number of beads.

Magna Doodles

Cardboard Blocks

Writing Center - Coloring pages

Music
Way down Yonder in the Pumpkin Patch

Big Pumpkin

Preschool Life Skill 2 - When I give you an instruction, do it right away.  We will continue to work on response to name in conjunction with this new life skill.

Back to School Night - We will have our back to school night tomorrow - on Tuesday, October 18th from 6:30-7:30.  I will give an overview of our classroom curriculum and expectations then parents are welcome to explore the classroom.  This night is for parents only, please.

We will continue our first unit of Family through the month of October. In this unit, students will be exploring and talking about families and the many different ways family members relate to and help one another.

Theme Concepts:

• Family members have role names (mother, father, sister, brother, etc)
• Some family members live together, some live in other places but are still family members.
• Grown-ups in a family take care of children. Younger children need more care. Older children can help take care of younger brothers and sisters.
• Families do things together that are fun.

Our Stories for this week include:
Whistle for Willie - Ezra Jack Keats     

Corduroy - Don Freeman

Handwriting -

Creative Creatures - adding googly eyes and pipe cleaners to playdough balls

Pop Tubes - working on hand strength

Coloring Book pages

Small Groups - 

Corduroy Buttons Math Book

Rhyming Words

Picture Matching/Beginning Sounds

Choice Time:
Dramatic Play - We are creating the Lucky Duck toy store.  On Tuesday, the Lucky Duck friends will be deciding on a name and creating signs for our store.  Students will take turns shopping and using the cash register to buy toys from our toy store just like Lisa in Corduroy.

Rug - Playing with toys from the toy store
Art - Painting Corduroy
Sensory - Sorting foam pieces - letters and numbers
Math Center - Shape sorters

Writing Center - Coloring pages

Music
Way down Yonder in the Pumpkin Patch

Big Pumpkin

Preschool Life Skill 2 - When I give you an instruction, do it right away.  We will continue to work on response to name in conjunction with this new life skill.

October 11

We will continue our first unit of Family through the month of October. In this unit, students will be exploring and talking about families and the many different ways family members relate to and help one another.

Theme Concepts:

• Family members have role names (mother, father, sister, brother, etc)
• Some family members live together, some live in other places but are still family members.
• Grown-ups in a family take care of children. Younger children need more care. Older children can help take care of younger brothers and sisters.
• Families do things together that are fun.

Our Stories for this week include:
Whistle for Willie - Ezra Jack Keats     

Corduroy - Don Freeman

Handwriting -

Isolating a finger to make pumpkins on a vine

Working on our coloring book of colors

Small Groups - 

How many ducks in the pond? -

How can I help my family? - Picking chores students can do at home

Sorting Pumpkins by size

Choice Time:
Dramatic Play - Kitchen
Rug - Big Car ramps
Art - Painting pumpkins
Sensory - Finding pumpkins in the hay
Math Center - Pattern blocks
Literacy Center - Talking about our families and making our family trees

Writing Center - Writing Vocab words

Music
Way down Yonder in the Pumpkin Patch

Preschool Life Skill 2 - When I give you an instruction, do it right away.  We will continue to work on response to name in conjunction with this new life skill.

Back to School Night - We will have our back to school night on Tuesday, October 18th from 6:30-7:30.  I will give an overview of our classroom curriculum and expectations then parents are welcome to explore the classroom.  This night is for parents only, please.


As always please contact me with any questions or concerns, via email, note or phone call.  I look forward to getting to know your children and the great year ahead.

Columbus Day

Monday, October 10th  - No School on Columbus Day


Acorns, Acorns All around!

The Lucky Ducks today had a blast playing with acorns.  They enjoyed rolling them down the slide, collecting them, counting them, comparing which ones had more yellow and which ones had more brown.  Given their interest in acorns, we will be adding stories about acorns into our week as well as singing the song "I'm a nut."  Please check out our playground pictures with acorns.

October 2nd

October 3

We will continue our first unit of Family through the month of October. In this unit, students will be exploring and talking about families and the many different ways family members relate to and help one another.

Theme Concepts:

• Family members have role names (mother, father, sister, brother, etc)
• Some family members live together, some live in other places but are still family members.
• Grown-ups in a family take care of children. Younger children need more care. Older children can help take care of younger brothers and sisters.
• Families do things together that are fun.

Our Stories for this week include:
Peter's Chair - Ezra Jack Keats

Noisy Nora - Rosemary Wells

Handwriting -

Making a fall picture using cotton tipped applicators

Working on our coloring book of colors

Small Groups - 

Playing Memory with paint chips

Book Browsing - Students will look for specific pictures, words and/or lettersPositional Book
Size Sorting

Choice Time:
Dramatic Play - Taking care of babies
Rug - Legos
Art - Marble painting leaves and acorns
Sensory - Bean Table
Math Center - Adding apples to match the number on the apple tree
Literacy Center - Rhyming Cards

Writing Center - Writing Vocab words
Easel - Painting Leaves and Pumpkins

Music
Head Shoulders, Wheels on the Bus, If Your Happy and You Know It

Preschool Homework - For our first unit, please send in 3-5 pictures of your family by Thursday, October 6th.   We will be using them to create a project about family in our classroom.  We will be cutting and laminating the pictures before they are returned to you.

Back to School Night - We will have our back to school night on Tuesday, October 18th from 6:30-7:30.  I will give an overview of our classroom curriculum and expectations then parents are welcome to explore the classroom.  This night is for parents only, please.


As always please contact me with any questions or concerns, via email, note or phone call.  I look forward to getting to know your children and the great year ahead.