Halloween Party

"Wee" Love Preschool's Halloween Party 2010

Lots of pictures were taken by Miss Janalynn today! What fun costumes! Today we played games, games, and more games. We played Musical Chairs, Don't eat Pete, and Pumpkin toss. We made our own treat baskets, by coloring and stapling two paper plates together. Then after watching a short movie "Max and Ruby's Halloween," and eating popcorn, we practiced "Trick-or-Treating". We each took a turn and went around the class and "Tricked-or Treated" at each Friend. We all brought treats to share. It was a lot of fun.

Black Spiders

Black Spiders

Today we talked about spiders. Spiders can be scary, but they can be helpful too. We read the book, "Be Nice to Spiders", by Margaret Graham, and the "Very Busy Spider", by Eric Carle. We then made our own spider webs by taking a marble dipped in white paint and very carefully, so not to drop the marble, rolled it back and forth and around and around our black plates. When the paint dried, Miss Janalynn gave us a bouncy ball with a black spider inside it. We played with the ball on our webbed plate and tried not to let our balls drop. It was a fun and crazy game.


We made our snacks today. We made spider cookies, with Oreos and Black licorice. The Oreos were a hit, the licorice wasn't but it was fun to create a spider that we could pull off the legs and then eat.


We also practiced cutting today. We learned that spiders have 8 legs. We cut those 8 legs to make a wind sock. This was the first time "cutting" for the 3 year olds. They did pretty good, it takes a lot of tiny muscles to cut and this was fun for them.


What made me laugh today was Cade's comment, "My dad found a spider and he started screaming, but it was already dead".

Orange Pumpkins

Annual Hay Ride to the Pumpkin Patch

Today we read the book, "Runaway Pumpkin" by, Kevin Lewis, and talked about all the different things we can make to eat with pumpkins. We even Baked Pumpkin cookies for our snack.

We took turns putting together how a pumpkin is grown sequence cards. Our fun craft was pumpkin plates glue and Orange rice! What fun it was to feel, scoop and play in the rice.

We played "Roll the Pumpkin" and practiced our Halloween songs. Finally the time had arrived for our Hay Ride! We meet our parents in Miss Janalynn's back yard and loaded up on Farmer Robert's tractor-pulled- wagon. Farmer Roberts drove the tractor to the Pumpkin Patch, where we got to pick our very own pumpkins! The weather was perfect and we sang our Halloween songs on our ride. We had a wonderful time.

Halloween Fun and the Color Brown

Our older class today practiced patterns, using fall and Halloween pictures. We colored the correct picture that came next in the patten that was made. Then we colored a Haunted Halloween house, cut out the windows and doors and glued them in the correct places on the house.

We talked about Halloween today. We looked at some fun/scary pictures of a witch, Frankenstein, vampire, monster, bats, ghost, mummy, etc. We talked about how on Halloween people like to trick their friends by dressing up and trying to scare them. We talked about how these things were NOT real and made to be fun and pretend.

We read a funny book called, "Monsterville's Halloween Party". Instead of dressing up scary for Halloween, they dressed up like humans. They thought that was scary.

We talked about bats. They come out at night and sleep during the day, and that's why sometimes they seem scary, but they really aren't that scary. We read that they like to eat fruit and small bugs and insects. And most surprising was, most bats are BROWN.

We made our very own bat to take home, and used our small fingers to peel and stick big white circle eyes to our bats.

We and recited the poem Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Each of us picked a colored animal to hold up when our part of the poem came up.

Safety Signs, Being Safe and the Color Green

Today we Talked about being safe. Sometimes we see signs that help keep us safe while driving, walking or in places. I encouraged the children to look for these signs and review the importance of having these signs to help everyone be safe.

We made a traffic light with the colors glued in the correct order.

We read Disney's "Safety First", and talked about crossing the street at a corner, cross walk, with an adult, and looking both ways. We talked about safety at a park, be careful of hot slides, walking in front of swings, taking turns and never talk to strangers.

Our Color today is Green.

We talked about turtles, then made a turtle by painting a bowl green and gluing it onto a turtle body. For a game we played, "Find the Turtle Egg". Miss Janalynn hid a ping-pong ball (egg) under 1 of 3 turtle shells (green bowls). Then Miss Janalynn moved the bowls around and around, then we took turns guessing where the egg was. Some of us had a good eye and could watch close the shell with the egg under it.

Fire Safety and the Color's Red and Yellow

Today we reviewed Community Helpers. We then focused on Fire Fighters, and how important their job is, how we can be safe around fires, and what we can do if there is a dangerous fire. We read the "Fire Truck". We looked at all the parts of a fire truck, and how and why hoses, ladders, oxygen masks, axes, coats, boots, hats, are used. We discussed the importance of not playing with things that can cause fires, so we wont' get hurt.

We played a game called "Stop don't touch" where each took a turn holding up a stop sign whenever a picture was pulled out that was something we shouldn't touch or play with because it could burn us or start a fire. Then we practiced Stop, Drop, and Roll. That was a little crazy with pretending there was fire on us! We made a pretend fire, by gluing red, yellow, and orange tissue paper to a cup.

We had fruit snacks for our snack. We dumped out our bags onto our plates, then separated the yellows and the reds from the other colors. We made a ABA pattern and counted our red and yellow fruit snacks before we ate them.

During singing time, we did the finger poem, "Five Little Fire Fighters", But instead of useing our fingers as actions during the poem, we used ourselves and we didn't stop at 5, we kept going until all of us were fire fighters helping putting out the fire. It got a little crazy all holding onto a jump rope pretending it was a hose putting out the fire! But it was easy to pretend with our craft fires, and a fire fighter hat we got to wear and take home.

Community Helpers and the Color Blue

Today in the older class, we practiced folding. We folded our, cut out, community helpers on the line to help make them stand. Then we practiced folding the pages of our community helpers coloring book. Folding is a great small motor skills to practice. I noticed the children didn't quit understand how to fold, but when they watched Miss Janalynn do it, they practiced and picked up on it right away.

We took turns playing "Guess Who" using pictures of community workers that were picked out of a bag. Then we read the story, "He Bear, She Bear", by Jan Berestien. We focused on Officer Margarette. We then became police officers ourselves by dressing up a paper doll with a Police Officer's uniform, and our face on it. We learned that there are a lot of people around where we live that have jobs everyday to help us and each other.

The color today was BLUE. After dressing the paper dolls in a blue uniform, we had a snack of real blue berries. Most of the children didn't like them and only had one or two. But they did like the Blue Berry Muffins made from the same bunch of berries. Weird that the blue berries really didn't look blue, but black, however, they made your fingers look blueish-purple.

For a game, we played "My Blue Shoe, how old are you", of course, the answerer's were either 3 or 4, but it was fun to see where it would land, and who's shoe would have to leave the circle.

What made me laugh today was Steven's comment,"I didn't know you were a mommy! I thought you were a teacher!"

Where I live and the color Purple

Where I Live

Today our older class looked at and played with Miss Janalynn's floor car map. We pointed out the school, houses, hospital, grocery store, fire station, gas station farm and all the other details on the map. We drove our little match box cars on the drawn roads to the different places on the map. Then we drew our own maps. We glued pictures onto our maps then drew roads that connected the different places.

We talked about different types of homes, homes around the world, and country and city homes.

We read the story of the 3 little pigs, then did a craft with 3 different pigs, and glued straw, sticks or bricks pictures to each of the pigs.

Our Color today was PURPLE. After a snack of purple grapes, we used our thumbs to stamp purple paint onto paper to make grape shapes.

for singing time today we learned two fun finger poems. "I Never Saw a Purple Cow", and Two Little Houses.

What made me laugh today was Cade's comment,"I don't want to be a purple cow, I just want to be a Super Hero!"