Theme: Our Earth, Fall, and Halloween
Dates: October 19-30
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• Take an "Earth Walk" and pick up trash
• Clean up a "trashed" room while sorting plastic, cans, glass, and newspaper
• Make a trash collage
• Make apple juice
• Take a field trip to the Good Will to donate items that can be reused
• Make Halloween orange play dough
• Go to a "pumpkin patch" and get a class pumpkin along with our very own small pumpkin to take home (hand-picked by me at my dad's farm)
• Make Witch's brew
• Make spider snack.
• Halloween party...Happy Halloween!!

Vocabulary: squirrel, stick, pick, earth, recycle, empty, full, newspaper, rake, can, plastic, glass, recycle bin, fall, seeds, acorn, trick or treat, costume, jack-o-lantern, costume, witch, skeleton, Frankenstein, Witch's broom, scarecrow, carve, bat, haunted house, mask, candy corn

Notes: Just a reminder...our Halloween party for the preschoolers will be at 2:00pm on Friday, October 30. Please send your child with their costume and we will help them put it on before the party. Also, you can join us at 2:40pm for our costume parade around the school. Hope to see you there!

Show and Tell Dates"
Monday: Kennedy and Ben D.
Wednesday: Frank and Sooah
Friday: Isiah and Esther

Theme: Dinosaurs
Dates: October 5-14
From: Tanya

Language Experiences:

• Dig for dinosaur eggs and bones outside on the playground
• Make a dinosaur puppet
• Talk about meat eaters and plant eaters like the dinosaurs and taste meat and vegetables
• Make a volcano with baking soda and vinegar
• Make dinosaur toast
• Make a dinosaur egg cut-out
• Make a dinosaur snack
• Explore a "Feelie box" and reinforce vocabulary: hard, soft, rough, bumpy etc.
• Pick apples and or go on a Fall walk
• Make something yummy with our apples:)

Vocabulary: dinosaur, soft, hard, dinosaur bones, rough, bumpy, volcano, horn, T-Rex, extinct, tail, sharp teeth, dig, plant eaters, meat eaters, apatasaurus, leaf, umbrella, rain, tree, red, purple, green, orange, yellow, blue

Show and Tell Dates:

Monday: Kennedy and Ben D.

Wednesday: Frank and Sooah

Friday: Isiah and Esther

Comments: Please sign up to have your child's conference on the form that's located on the wall outside of my door. My conferences are being held November 2 through November 6. Time slots available are: 2-3pm, 3-4pm, and 4-5pm on these days. If none of the available dates/times work for you, please let me know and we can work something out. Thanks! .