4's and Week 10: Falloween

Happy Falloween. In preparation for Halloween, we did a lot of fun activities. We spent a lot of time counting the October calendar and working on recognizing numbers 20-30. During calendar time, we also talked about their home address and created a song to sing, so they can remember where they live. We also made Halloween biscuits where the kids got to select their own shape and roll out the dough. I forgot to take a picture of the final project, but they were yummy. 

Noah and Jack picked pumpkins, bats, and moons for their shapes. 

 The Book of the week is the famous: The Cat in the Hat, which we read....a lot. We worked on trying to juggle a bunch of objects, but mainly the boys just enjoyed throwing things around. We also talked about patterns and rhyming as well, so they painted their own pattern on the hat.

Look at Jack and the concentration on his face. 

We also worked with foam letters. This was great, but challenging for them. I handed them three- four letters and said a word, then they had to sound out the letters and try and spell the words. Jack did a great job sounding out the letters. For example cat and ball. 

Great job Jack and Noah with your patters! 

 So the curriculum for this week was letting the kids help carve the pumpkins. Talking about the differences on the inside and outside and letting them feel different textures. Little did I know, that I would be the one having to carve the pumpkins out, ugh. They had fun watching me and telling me what to do! They all helped as much as they could.

We also made pumpkin muffins and of course they all had to help lick the spoons. That is the best part, right?!

We worked on the letters again since Addison joined us, and they did a little better. I gave them 4 letters this time, and just said the words once. They had to see if they could put the letters in the correct order.  I had to help a bit more with that. But then I had them search for the letters in their name, and they recognized the order of those letters right away!

Lastly we read one of our favorite Halloween books, Spookley the Square Pumpkin. It is a great book that teaches about being different. 

The final project.....they turned out, ok. Happy Halloween!