Friday, October 25, 2019

2019 October Week 8 Letters Ww, Xx, Yy, and Zz; Bats and Spiders!


Hope your Fall break was full of memories!
I zoomed down to Indianapolis to visit my daughter, Shae!
I got to spoil my 4 grandbabies ages 8-3.

I also took a detour to see my newest Granddaughter in Baraboo!  I'm a lucky Grandma!
Here's a sneak peek at bat week... this kiddo created a bat flyer! 

I'm not sure how many of these we've posted from our ABC book so here's Ll through Ww:











  The watermelon is scented with watermelon jello for our own version of scratch and sniff!

Here's another fire poster entry!
Nice!

We are really reading now!
Here's a sample of the predictable text the kids are mastering...

On letter Uu day we had umbrellas to decorate our snack!



 This unique little one brought unicorn poop (haha!) and animal crackers for our Uu snack!

The leader is loving her chart!

Good (underwear) reads...
 We played this game at group time.  
It is a very popular choice at play time! They don't even know they are learning! Shhhh...don't tell them!

 


 Before break we had a squirrel science study day!
We had to make these little critters!





 She's playing with playdo making the letter of the day to surprise me!

This very fun girl brought Vienna Fingers and Vanilla Wafers for our Vv day snack!


 Tuesday before break our centers were:
More or Less with Squirrels...


Autumn I Spy...



Autumn Shapes Pattern Blocks...





Squirrel Color Words read the room...

 

Squirrel Beginning Sounds...


 We learned the difference between numbers, letters, words, and sentences!

More Good Reads!

We had new morning challenges before we left for fall break:
Acorn Rhyming...


Fall Animals One to One Counting...


Leaf abc order...


and a POPCORN party for winning the ABC Game to 20 points!

Wednesday afternoon we created these adorable and unique Jack O'Lanterns!




















Here's a glimpse of our pumpkin science table...



On Monday this Wonderful guy brought Whale crackers and Wheat Thins for our Ww snack! 

We water colored our witches and sprayed them with water to wash them away! 
What fun! 
 

The morning message gets lots of attention! 

On Monday afternoon we made a moon by capturing black colored bubbles on a white paper circle for an upcoming bat project, stay tuned! 

The kiddos created their own rhyme time bat...









This extremely creative guy brought xylophones for us to eat on Xx day!


 The kiddos all got a bonus bat to decorate this year! 


We labeled a bat like a scientist...





 

 

Choice time is a favorite time!

The Halloween toy discovery table is definitely a hit!


Tuesday's centers included:
Batty Ways to Make 5...


Bat Counting On...


Science Center: writing about bats...

(notice the great detailed bubble moons from yesterday)

Bat Missing Letter...


and a new station called POKEY PIN!
The kids use a push pin
 to poke the letter, trace it, and say it!


Wednesday we had new Morning Challenges:
Bat Rhyme Time...


Bat ABC Order...


Bat Numerals and Tallies...

Here's our bat science decorating the room!





The expert learner brought yogurt for our Yy snack!

These were fun!
Each kiddo received their own 
B-B-B-B-B-B-BAT MAN rhyming packet!
They are really beginning to get those prereading skills down!


More discovery table fun!

Our quest for mastering nouns continues!
We created this anchor chart about
NOUNS FOR ANIMALS!

Ohhhh! This looks like fun!
We created a super cute spider to sing 
"There's a Spider on the Floor on the Floor" with!






This is my 26th year of making these cutie patooties with 5-6 year olds!  One of my favorites!


The Spider Science table is a hit!



The kiddos have discovered the stacking cups!
They've built some pretty impressive structures,some we were able to leave up until the next day.
Great team work!







Often we set out the centers for choice time.
WIN!!!

Remember those cutie little spiders?
"There's a spider on my leg, on my leg!"
"There's a spider on my neck, on my neck!"
"There's a spider on my face, on my face!"




"There's a spider on my head, on my head!"



Thursday morning we had an illustrator, Kari Hartmann, visit with the whole school about her job as an illustrator!
The kids even had a guided drawing lesson with her!


 This zany girl brought zebra cakes for our final alphabet snack and letter Zz!
 At conferences you will have another chance to sign up for a letter of the week snack...just on Wednesdays though!
Until then, I will bring the snack on Wednesdays.

Our spider study included observing this spider carapace from a lovey tarantula named Rosey!
She no longer needed it as she changed and grew from the inside out! It's like taking off a too small jacket!
The kids were fascinated by this fragile item.

Thursday's centers included:
shape construction using toothpicks and gum drops!



Spider web painting...




Spider roll, record, write, and stamp!


Spider ABC order...


Spider beginning sound photos failed...sorry no pics but believe me it was fun!

Here's our final entries in our ABC book...
Xx Yy and Zz~



 Good reads for this week:
Whew, that was a long blog!
thank for sticking with me!
And now for the week of October 28-November 1:
Language Arts: Letter Mm, star word "and", verbs, and beginning sounds
Math: 0-10
Theme: Halloween and Skeletons
Social Studies: Seasons Bring Change

BIG NEWS: 
Hope to see you at my home for 
TRICK OR TREATING 
from 4-7 on Thursday!
(map in Monday's homework folder)
No School for students
 Friday, November 8
Teacher Workshop

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