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October 18, 2015
Room 100 Newsletter
Week of October 18, 2015
Thank you all for attending the class trip to Ramsey Farm! It was a gorgeous morning and everyone had a great time on the hayride, picking pumpkins and running through the hay bale maze!
Our focus this week will be on Halloween!
Nothing scary, just fun! Here are some highlights for the week:
On Thursday, we will visit the school science lab and carve our class pumpkin that we brought back from Ramsey Farm. I will be reading the book titled, “Pumpkin Jack” by Will Hubbell. This is a story of a boy who puts his Jack O Lantern outside after Halloween and watches it change throughout winter and spring. In the end, the seeds grow and leave him with a vine of pumpkins. We will place our Jack O Lantern outside too and watch what happens to it throughout the cold months to come. We will also take pictures of the changes our pumpkin experiences.
The children will have the opportunity to help clean out the inside of our pumpkin and separate the seeds from the pulp. We’ll wash the seeds and then bake them. Everyone will have the chance to taste them and we will also send some home in a baggie for you to try! We will chart “Do you like pumpkin seeds?”
We will also head outside on Friday and stuff a shirt and pants full of hay to make our very own scarecrow. We’ll add a plastic pumpkin for the head and top it off with a hat!
We will name our scarecrow and display him outside!
We have been listening to Halloween songs in school. The children love acting out two songs in particular, “ Witches Brew” and “ 3 Little Witches”. I’m sure they can sing and act them out for you!
Thank you, Mrs. Reagoso, Clare’s mom, for assisting with Gym class last week!
Religion
We will be reviewing our lessons on the light of Jesus within us and relating it to lighting a Jack O Lantern. We will also review the Blessed Trinity and relating it to the 3 colors in candy corn.
Daily Lessons
Letter- F f
Number- 4 four
Color- orange
Shape- oval
Nursery Rhyme- Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
Yoga- flamingo pose and frog pose
Stories
Letter F f Book
Number 4 Book and song
Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer O’Connell
We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt by Kris Herschmann
Ghosts In The House by Kazuno Kohara
Activities
The Big Super Heroes will paint the bottom of their foot white to create a ghost on black paper. It will read, “The ghost of (child’s name)”
Journal- draw a ghost and write or trace the word ghost
The Little Super Heroes will make a ghost using a paper plate. They will add white streamers, arms, eyes and a mouth. We will hang them from the ceiling
in our classroom!
REMINDERS!
Wednesday, October 21- Music and Gym Classes! Wear sneakers!
Thursday, October 22- Cooking Class! Carve our pumpkin and toast the seeds!
Friday, October 23- Library! Please return books so you can borrow another!
Make a scarecrow!
Looking Ahead!
Hooray! Halloween is just about here! Our classroom celebration is Friday, October 30 in Room 100 from 10am-11:30am. All are welcome to attend! You must have your clearances up to date with the school office in order to attend!