🦇 🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃 🦇
What a fun week we've had together! You could feel the excitement in the air during this week. The kids enjoyed making playdough monsters with googley eyes and pipe cleaner legs. Rolling, patting, and picking up the playdough also helps strengthen the trick or treaters little hands. This will benefit the kids when it's time to start to write. Another opportunity for us to observe the children's fine motor skills was a spooky spider craft. Each child was given a small condiment cup that was painted black and had four holes punched along the sides. Silly eye stickers were put on the bottom of the cup and black pipe cleaners were pushed through the holes to the other side to make spider legs. This project took a lot of concentration, fine motor skills, and hand eye coordination. But first and foremost, it was just a lot of fun! The spiders are "climbing" their webs over our library area windows.
We enjoyed a couple of math games this week. Cards with the numbers 1 - 4 were placed on the rug along with a bunch of mini pumpkins. This game is a great way to teach the kids one to one correspondence. Each child would try to recognize a number and then count out the same number of pumpkins and place them over that card. A giant spiderweb was made on one of our classroom tables. We practiced rolling the dice and using our pointer fingers to slowly count each dot, then found the picture that had that same number of spiders on it for a match.
Our Quarter Notes love googley eyes. So we made bat silhouettes and glued different size eyes on them. They're glued up on our classroom windows so we can see them during snack and lunch.
Miss Lisa had fun Halloween music for us to dance to. We changed our movements according to the music. We sang a song about ghosts and counted backwards from ten. Bats were placed onto tiny cups and put on the tip of faux violin bows. The children held the bows straight up and down and practiced balancing the bats on the bows without them falling off. You may recall them from Spooky Suzuki this past weekend.
Mrs. Mei helped us learn how to say our numbers and months. She showed us cards with the characters written on them and we played a game on numbeted spiderweb paper plates and counted out the same number of Halloween erasers. We also watched a video of animals with different eyes, noses, ears, and teeth made out of Cheerios, balls, etc. The kids loved it! The link is below:
https://youtu.be/EEU8X1QtkR8
Miss Becca helped us continue to practice our resting and playing feet on our mat and our bows. Our blue foam violins are helping us to get ready for the real thing! After being so patient, We danced around to Miss Becca's beautiful violin music.
Lastly, we had a wonderful Halloween celebration with our Half Note friends in Mrs. B. and Ms. Drago's classroom. They hosted a fun dance party, made monsters or princesses, and had a cookie decorating party. Afterwards, we lined up and got ready for our Halloween parade. The kids looked adorable in their costumes! We hope you enjoyed seeing everyone.
Have a great weekend!
Alison Dressler Kristine Crugnale
What a fun week we've had together! You could feel the excitement in the air during this week. The kids enjoyed making playdough monsters with googley eyes and pipe cleaner legs. Rolling, patting, and picking up the playdough also helps strengthen the trick or treaters little hands. This will benefit the kids when it's time to start to write. Another opportunity for us to observe the children's fine motor skills was a spooky spider craft. Each child was given a small condiment cup that was painted black and had four holes punched along the sides. Silly eye stickers were put on the bottom of the cup and black pipe cleaners were pushed through the holes to the other side to make spider legs. This project took a lot of concentration, fine motor skills, and hand eye coordination. But first and foremost, it was just a lot of fun! The spiders are "climbing" their webs over our library area windows.
We enjoyed a couple of math games this week. Cards with the numbers 1 - 4 were placed on the rug along with a bunch of mini pumpkins. This game is a great way to teach the kids one to one correspondence. Each child would try to recognize a number and then count out the same number of pumpkins and place them over that card. A giant spiderweb was made on one of our classroom tables. We practiced rolling the dice and using our pointer fingers to slowly count each dot, then found the picture that had that same number of spiders on it for a match.
Our Quarter Notes love googley eyes. So we made bat silhouettes and glued different size eyes on them. They're glued up on our classroom windows so we can see them during snack and lunch.
Miss Lisa had fun Halloween music for us to dance to. We changed our movements according to the music. We sang a song about ghosts and counted backwards from ten. Bats were placed onto tiny cups and put on the tip of faux violin bows. The children held the bows straight up and down and practiced balancing the bats on the bows without them falling off. You may recall them from Spooky Suzuki this past weekend.
Mrs. Mei helped us learn how to say our numbers and months. She showed us cards with the characters written on them and we played a game on numbeted spiderweb paper plates and counted out the same number of Halloween erasers. We also watched a video of animals with different eyes, noses, ears, and teeth made out of Cheerios, balls, etc. The kids loved it! The link is below:
https://youtu.be/EEU8X1QtkR8
Miss Becca helped us continue to practice our resting and playing feet on our mat and our bows. Our blue foam violins are helping us to get ready for the real thing! After being so patient, We danced around to Miss Becca's beautiful violin music.
Lastly, we had a wonderful Halloween celebration with our Half Note friends in Mrs. B. and Ms. Drago's classroom. They hosted a fun dance party, made monsters or princesses, and had a cookie decorating party. Afterwards, we lined up and got ready for our Halloween parade. The kids looked adorable in their costumes! We hope you enjoyed seeing everyone.
Have a great weekend!
Alison Dressler Kristine Crugnale
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