Catch Up! End of October Fun!

It's time to catch up again! I cannot believe that October has come and gone! We have done lots of fun things at school over the past two weeks. We finished up talking about pumpkins. I'm sure you noticed a lovely decorated pumpkin that was brought home. It was fun to let each student decorate it however they wanted. We have also continued working on rhyming and making patterns. We have a new tricky pattern for the November calendar. I'm anxious to see how quickly they can catch onto it! We also started practicing counting the syllables in their names. That's a hard one to learn. Don't be surprised if they come home clapping out their names. They really seem to think it's a fun "game". Another new thing we talked about was Mat Man. We have a song that talks about all the parts of Mat Man and we lay down each part on the carpet as we sing along (head, eyes, nose, body, arms, hands, etc).

Last week we did some fun Halloween activities. On Thursday we did three small group rotations with some fun games. The first one we had was Halloween BINGO and the students got to use plastic spiders to place on their cards. That made the game so much more fun in their eyes! The next activity was acting out the book "Five Little Pumpkins"while I read it. They each got to use a paper gate and pumpkins to place on it. The last game was a relay race. They had to place a plastic spider on a spoon and walk across the carpet and place it into a plastic pumpkin. We finished up the week with our fun pajama day!

Other big highlights:

Science! The students continue to love our "Science Fridays". Lately we have done a dancing raisins experiment and an experiment where we mixed baby oil, water, and glitter. For dancing raisins, we placed raisins in a bottle of club soda. The raisins first sank to the bottom, and then after a little time, they started floating up to the top and dropped right back down. They sure thought that was a funny to see them "dancing".

Gym! We got out some fun new things at gym the past couple gym days. The first gym time we had three fun new stations: balance beam, bean bag toss, and trampolines! Last week we tried out scooters for the first time! These were a huge hit! We even tried connecting them all together and making one big train. We had so much fun so us teachers even had to try them out. The students enjoyed seeing their teachers act like kids :)

I hope this post brings you up to date with all that we have been up to in preschool!