This week our theme was monsters! We read a lot of fun books and participated in many exciting activities before finishing off the week with trick-or-treating on Halloween! This week's fun fact is that in some countries, children have to sing, tell a joke, dance or show off any other talent before receiving candy. Here we just say "Trick or Treat!" Learning and DiscoveryOur group activities this week were awesome! On Tuesday we practiced our weaving skills by threading string through holes to create a spiderweb. We even got to add spiders to our creations! Afterwards we got to play outside for a little bit - until we were just TOO COLD. Then we came inside and played some fun games like balancing beanbags on our feet! On Wednesday we had a couple of rotations of cognitive games. We had lots of fun counting candy corns, comparing potions in different containers, and visually tracking a pumpkin under a cup as it was mixed around. We learned a lot of new and exciting things this week! Thursday for our group activity we went trick-or-treating and there are lots of cute pictures later in this blog post! Free TimeWe had tons of cool table activities this week during free time! Tuesday at the Art table we got to make our own unique monster using paper, markers, and popsicle sticks. At the Language table we played Guess-Who where we had to guess our friend's monster before they guessed ours! At the Science table we rolled a dice to create our monster, and for our Gross Motor activity we had a monster obstacle course that was lots of fun! Wednesday at the Science table we sorted different colors of pom-poms to match all the different colored monsters, and at the Art table we made Frankenstein Heads! For our Gross Motor activity we had a bean bag toss, but we had to throw the beanbags into the monster's mouth! At the Language table we had monsters that wanted to eat all the objects that started with their letter. So, we fed the "B" monster a bat, boat, and a broom! We also had spiders hidden all around the room on Wednesday, and we tried to find as many as we could during free time! On Thursday at the Art table we made ghosts using crayons, cotton balls, paper, eyeball stickers, and buttons. At the Science table we practiced our addition by counting how many spiders were in each web. At the Language table we played Tic-Tac-Boo! using spiders, black kittens, and jack-o-lanterns. For our Gross Motor activity we hop, skipped, and jumped onto different obstacles to follow the dragon to its lair! Trick-Or-Treat!Halloween was on Thursday and we got to go trick or treating in the high school! We had the greatest time and we got lots of candy! Candid Moments & Costumes!Teachers of the WeekOur teacher spotlights for this week are Melizza and Gaby!
Hands On Activity- Monster Rocks
*Last week's answer to the question, "Where did the tradition of pumpkin carving come from?" is Ireland. They used to carve turnips, but immigrants to the USA found that it was a lot easier to carve pumpkins, which is why our jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins!
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