Halloween and Review Week 2013

This week, we reviewed what we learned in the past and celebrated Halloween festivities.  I chose to do Halloween festivities the week before Halloween, because I wanted to do the field trips during the same week. I didn't want to go on a field trip on Halloween, so I scheduled it the week before.  I also wanted the children to be able to bring their Halloween art home - in time to tape it up to decorate for Halloween.

For review on Monday, the children held up letter cards when they heard the letter sound in the beginning of certain words.  They also helped squish the letter sound to the next part of a word to make a word "m....uffin" = "muffin".  They helped read the Bob books 1 & 2, reviewed letter flash cards, reviewed colors, shapes, and the numbers up to 6.  For writing, they traced a few sentences from Bob book #2 and then tried to write them.

The center that both classes did was - talking about what is inside a pumpkin, coloring "it", coloring a pumpkin, gluing the answer to the pumpkin, and cutting the pumpkin out.

The Monday/Wednesday class also stamped letters stamps that matched a large letter printed on a paper along with stamps of animals and things that start with that letter.  They spent one minute on each letter and then switched to a new letter.  Only half the class did this and the other half did the pumpkin center listed above.  We will finish the rotation, next week.

The Tuesday class' other center was to dig through rice in one box and dried beans in another to find "Halloween" treasures and sort them out.  They also rotated over to the circle time chart to review our letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and days of the week.  This center will be used for the M/W/F class, next week.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, both classes were able to play musical instruments while walking around in a parade and listening to kid friendly Halloween music.  I took pictures while they did this.  We also listened to kid friendly Halloween books.

On Wednesday, the class was supposed to do a spider web art project, but I couldn't find my marbles for the project, so I scrambled and did the project that I saved for the week coming up - scratch off pumpkins.  They pretended to carve their own jack-o-lantern with the scratch stick and colors appeared where they scratched the black surface.  The Thursday class will do that next week.

On Thursday, we went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch and on Friday, we went on a field trip to the dairy farm.  The pictures for those field trips are in two separate blogs, so check out the pictures.

Next week, we will be learning about the letter Oo, the number 7, the color brown, and heart shapes.

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