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.