What better things to learn about the week before Halloween than skeletons and spiders? This week’s theme allowed for lots of scientific learning (as well as lots of fun of course)! Did you know a spider can be the size of a dinner plate? Or that your rib cage protects your organs? These are just a couple of fun facts we learned. Lots of great conversations this week!
We really did pack in a lot of learning. You will see our spider chart below that we made. Each spider leg had one fun spider fact on it. We also worked on rhyming this week with our fun "Very Hungry Spider" poem. Make sure to check this poem out in your poetry folder. To go with our skeleton theme, we enjoyed working with a fun magnetic skeleton puzzle! We also sang several songs that helped us learn about the bones in our body.
Our class shared many smiles as we shared our emotion pumpkins with our friends! Thank you for doing these with your child. They were all so creative!!
We also showed our creativity by making spiders from pine cones and monsters from shapes. We had fun working on our fine motor skills and on one-to-one correspondence by putting eyes on monsters, weaving spider webs, and more. We even used tweezers to grab spiders out of their spider webs and worked on shape sorting with our fun shape monsters.
To continue our theme on how God is always with us, our Bible focus this week was on the story of Gideon! See what your child can remember.
To continue our theme on how God is always with us, our Bible focus this week was on the story of Gideon! See what your child can remember.
Assessments were started this week (and will be sent home next week). These are very low key and simply give us an idea of what skills we need to focus on with each child. We are not assessing any letters at this point but are checking to see who can identify their name. We have started working on ordering and saying the letters in their names in class (which is a great activity for home too)!
We look forward to the Halloween party next week! Your child is welcome to wear his or her costume... We simply ask that these costumes be easy to get on and off in order to still be able to go to the restroom independently. Thank you in advance!!
This week, see if your child can...
1. Say the letters of their name with you.
2. Practice October's memory verse.
3. Find a spider in your yard (or house)!
4. Write a zero! (We reviewed 0-5 this week.)
5. Find 10 leaves and count them.
Play dough spiders!
Someone has his name down!
These cute shape monsters went in portfolios!
Weaving spiders webs!
These sweet friends were awesome at matching the sticks to the "bone" pictures!
We loved holding our class skeleton!
What better way to practice counting than with monster eyes?!
We are playing independently so well!
We did a great job sorting shapes!
Catching some spiders!
Look at these good writers!
We did such a good job sharing our pumpkins!
