Happy Friday!
**Please make sure to clear out your child’s art cubbie at pick up. Thank you!
K/PREK1 read one of our favorite Halloween stories in group today. Spookley is not a normal pumpkin so we talked about the positives of being different! Afterwards, we looked at the chalkboard and the different colored pumpkins. Each child came up to the chalkboard and read a line aloud: “yellow, green, yellow, green, yellow, _____”. They figured out what came next in the pattern and found that colored pumpkin and taped it on the board to finish the pattern.
K.CA.5: Create, extend, and give an appropriate rule for simple repeating and growing patterns with number and shapes.
In PREK2, children focused on being able to answer questions as well as discuss what tally marks are! After children answered the question, “What is the scariest costume to you?”, they got to come up to the board and write their name under their answer! Vampires are awfully scary! 
One of the perks of turning 4 is being able to use the real nails and real hammers at the work bench! At first, teachers observe and help when needed to make sure that we are making safe choices with the real tools but after quite some time, children are able to build adequate, solid structures! Maxwell has been creating quite the array of bird and squirrel houses as of late!
Most all of our friends came to the art table to explore Fall stamps! Some of our younger friends who hadn’t gotten the chance to work with stamps were interested in how the ink transferred from the ink pad to the paper!
Loose parts consumed our outside time this morning as we built a house with logs and used small and large rocks as food! Loose parts allow our imagination to engage as we often play pretend while outside.
“The wonder of teaching is watching caterpillars become butterflies.”
Breakfast– Rice cakes with peanut butter and PPC banana.
Lunch– Turkey and sliced cheese on whole wheat bread, PPC banana, and PPC cucumber/fresh carrots.
PM snack– Goldfish and cheddar jack cheese.
Wee Sprout– PPC cucumber/fresh carrots.
Have a fantastic weekend!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/26