Haunting To Houses

Our Halloween Party was so much fun! The Children were dressed so cute, and they were so excited to be dressed up! We started our party by eating popcorn while we filled plastic gloves up with popcorn to make "Spooky" hands. Then we glued black shapes onto our paper mache pumpkins, to make them into Jack-o-lantern Halloween baskets.

We played Halloween games, like a fun dice game called "How Many Teeth", and "Bat, Bat, Witch". "Musical chairs" was played while listing to some scary Halloween music. After each child had a turn practicing, "Trick-or-Treating" and passing the candy they brought, we bundled up, grabbed our buddy and went "Haunting", (Halloween caroling). We went to 7 homes around the block singing at each one the fun Halloween songs we had been singing this month. What a fun and memorable day!

Be Nice To Spiders and The Color Black

Today we took off our shoes and socks and enjoyed steeping in paint! This is never easy and I think we got white paint not only on the bottoms of our feet, but on everything we touched! Good thing it's washable! With our feet white we stepped onto black paper. When the paint dried, we colored with black markers a ghost face. When I told the children we were making ghost with our feet, they didn't believe me. It wasn't until I made a face did they see the ghost. One or two of the children didn't want to step in paint, so we just traced their shoe instead then colored it white.

We read the book, "Be Nice To Spiders", about a helpful spider who lives at the Zoo and ate the flies that bothered the animals. Although spiders can be kinda scary, they can also be helpful. We colored a haunted house, and attached a straw to the house to represent a drain pipe. BTW the children didn't know they had drain pipes on their house. We took a short trip outside to see the pipes on Miss Janalynn's house, where I explained their function of catching the rain and how the water pours out at the bottom. Hopefully now the song, "Itsey, Bitsey Spider" will make more sense.

Singing time was fun, because we used our houses with the drain pipe straws and spiders, when we sang "Itsey, Bitsey Spider". All the children knew the words, and we sang it over, and over, and over. They were reluctant to learn the nursery song, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" until we played a game while singing it. Over all singing time was the highlight today!

Orange Pumpkins!!

Halloween is almost here! The kids are excited, especially because today we started making Halloween crafts. Today since we talked about the color orange, we made paper mache pumpkins. Flour and water was mixed to make an Ooey-Gooey paste. It was fun to play in, kinda like playing in white mud. So they can dry, we will paint them orange next time in class.

We then baked Pumpkin Cookies with yummy chocolate chips. We read, and colored "Farmer Mouse's Pumpkin", coloring book. The story showed us how a pumpkin is grown. We learned that a pumpkin is turned into a Jack-O-Lantern, when we carve it.


The best part of today was our trip to Farmer Robert's Pumpkin Patch! We rode on a trailer pulled by Farmer Roberts and his tractor over to the pumpkin patch were we were able to pick out our very own pumpkins to take home. It was the perfect day! The sun was shinning and warm, perfect for pumpkin picking!

Fire Safety Red

It is so important to know what to do in case of a fire. We read the book "Stop Drop and Roll", and hopefully know how to keep safe, with smoke detectors in the house, crawling low if there is smoke, to wrap up in a blanket if there is fire, GET OUT and to NOT hide and to not be afraid of a fireman. We took a look at a fire truck and all the tools that are used to help put out fires. We also took a look at the outfit and gear that a fireman wears to help protect him from fires.

For a craft we painted an egg carton red, glued a ladder and wheels onto it. After gluing a picture of ourselves in the window, it resembled a firetruck with us driving!

We are practising our Halloween songs now. They are a lot of fun, especially the song, "Halloween" because it screams "BOO!" at the end, we all laugh after we are done singing.

Have You Seen? We are learning Green!

The Children watched while I mixed yellow paint with blue paint to make Green. Then we made Goren Frogs out of a small paper plate. We sang the song "Bawlumph, went the little Green Frog" using our puppet green frogs.

It very important that we know how to stay safe. We talked about the road signs we see, and what they mean. Most of them are made to keep us safe whether we are walking or driving, or even riding our bikes! We also talked about other things to keep us safe. Do not talk to strangers, being with a buddy, watching out for cars using the side walks, etc. We talked about things we can do to stay safe indoors too. We pick up toys, don't' play with outlets, don't touch the hot stove. Last but not least, we practiced dialing 911 if and only if their is an emergency and someone is hurt. We read the book, "Shela Rae, the Brave" about what we do if we get lost.

For singing, we practiced our fun Halloween songs.

"Halloween"

"Do You Know It's Halloween"

"Found a Pumpkin"

"Ram Sam Sam"

Going Places/Transportation and the Color Blue

Today we talked about how we get to preschool, and looked at pictures of how other children in the world get to school. We read a fun book called "Bunnies on the Go" And sang songs such as "Down by the Station", "Row, Row, Row your boat" and "I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane". The children received their own Transportation map with different kinds of Transportation pictures to place onto the map. The older children decorated large wings that hooked onto our arms and then we pretended to be Airplanes!

Today was the color blue!

We colored a Blue Bird and glue Blue feathers onto it.

We Blew Blue Bubbles with Blue soap, and straws. It was a lot of fun seeing how big our bubbles got. Afterwards we played the game, "my blue shoe, how old are you?"

Welcome To Our Purple Preschool

I never saw a purple cow,

I hope to never see one;

But I can tell you anyhow,

I rather see one, than be one!

This was a poem we said over and over, while we water colored purple on a cow, then glued a copy of this funny poem to the cow. We practiced our small motor skills, by pulling off the backs of grape size purple stickers, to form a bunch of grapes, and then we ate real grapes for our snack.

Community helpers/workers are important to our neighborhoods. We read the book "He Bear, She Bear" and "Who's Hat". I found out that a mail carrier is the most popular choice among 3 and 4 year olds to be when they grow up. However, Braden wants to be a fire fighter, Kiely wants to be a Veterinarian, while Luke insists on being a Dinosaur.

Say Hello To Yellow!

We started our Colors today!

all the kids know them, however it's fun to dedicate a day to one color.We started with the color Yellow. We sang 5 little Ducks, read the book "Are you my Duckling?", then painted yellow on folded paper plates to create a waddling yellow duck.

Today going along with October's Theme, "My Surroundings" We talked about where we live, and what types of homes people and animals live in. We colored, then acted out with puppet pigs, the story "The 3 Little Pigs!" I encouraged the children to go home and tell the story with their pig puppets, to their family, I hope they did.