Friday, November 4, 2011

What a busy 4 days!  Halloween and parent/teacher conferences make the week seem so crazy, but fun at the same time!  I really enjoyed seeing all of you at conference this week!
Monday was Halloween, so we did a lot of Halloween activities. 
I gave each of them a piece of orange paper, and we read "The Little Orange House".  It is about a witch that makes a house that she can stay in for the winter.  She folds the paper in half, cuts off the corners on the top to make a roof, cuts a little door big enough for her to fit in, cuts out a window, then she meets a ghost friend and she has to cut out a little door for the ghost.  In the end it makes a pumpkin when you unfold it.  I love how unique they all are.  They turned out so different from one another.

 We also play Halloween Bingo.  They each colored these last week, I laminated them, and then we played!
Later we had a Halloween parade and a party.  Thank you SO much to the parents that did the party!  It was really fun and the kids enjoyed it so much.  
The kids got to play 3 different games. 
They got to eat donuts from a string without touching it with their hands.

 I thought this game was fun!  There are pictures in those bowls, they each got a straw, and they had to get the picture stuck to their straw...
 ...run it to the other bowl...
 ...drop it, then run back.  It was such a fun relay game!
 They also played a music game where they would get prizes.
 It was a fun day to say the least!

After Halloween, it was time to start on the Thanksgiving projects.  Seriously?!?!?!  Already?!?!  Only 2 weeks before our Thanksgiving break.  I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT!  Once we get to Halloween, Christmas seems to come right away.  CRAZY!
The first things that we got to do were:
A turkey math page.  We've been working on our doubles, and they all did a great job!
 We made thankful hands!  They traced their hands, wrote what they were thankful for and I put them on a tree in the back of the room.
 We also made our November calendars! 


Next week we will start learning harder things and I am excited to teach them!  We will be learning about ending blends and sounds.  -ed, -s, -ing.  I'm pretty excited!
Thanks for all you do parents!

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