October News

Boy have we had a busy month!  We have been learning new letters and sounds, practicing how to print those letters and applying the letter sounds!  We read lots of versions of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and compared/contrasted them.  Our last book was told from the troll's point of view and according to him "goats just don't know hospitality" (he was the "victim" in the story of course).  It was very funny to hear about how nice he was to the goats, we all laughed!  We sequenced pictures from the story and made goat headbands.

We also had an Open Circle about Cooperation.  We talked about how to work together when we need to solve problems.  We are always respectful and kind.

We also learned about pumpkins!  We read books about pumpkins, watched a video about pumpkins, worked on pumpkin books adding "seeds" to the pages to help us count, ordered pictures of a pumpkin plant (thanks to Alora for bringing in a flower from her pumpkin plant!)

And of course we couldn't forget Halloween!  We made haunted houses, decorated pumpkins with shapes and recorded how many shapes we used, used play dough to make the correct number of pumpkins on fall mats, wrote about what we want to be during Writer's Workshop, played Halloween letter bingo, read lots of Halloween stories and played some fun counting games with partners such as "ghost flips".

We started our week with a parade and Halloween party!  Many thanks to all who donated items and helped make it special!  A big thank you to Mrs. O'Shea, Mrs. Du Ross and Mrs. Stein for coming in and making our party great!

Happy Halloween!!