Week of 10/29

Dear Star Room 2AM Families,

What a “boo-tastic” week we had in the classroom! It was so wonderful to see many of you for our Halloween celebration and all your children looked fabulous in their Halloween costumes. Below is an update on what the Star Room children learned this week at Montclare.

Theme this week:

• We explored pumpkins and Halloween this week! We made visual observations about a pumpkin, cut it open to see, smell and touch the insides and finally carved a jack o’lantern. We also talked about Halloween and the costumes we are going to wear on that day!

Books we read:

• Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch, by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• It’s Pumpkin Day, Mouse!, by Laura Numeroff
• What Am I? Halloween, by Anne Margaret Lewis

 
Songs we sang:

• “What’s the Weather?”
• “5 Little Pumpkins”
• “I Saw a Ghost”

Places we went:

• We learned how to use dry erase markers and whiteboards with Julia and Janae in Art 
• We read stories and took our library books in Library with Lindsay
• We sang Oh Susannah, Happy Birthday on kazoo and I Love You a Bushel + a Peck with Noel
• We played on the roof playground and the 2nd floor indoor gym

Classroom Activities:

• We finished our paper plate pumpkins by adding 2 black triangles for eyes, a mouth and green tissue paper for a stem. We also created paper plate monster puppets in honor of Halloween. The children painted the plate green, added a purple and black circle for an eye and glued on a black half circle and white triangles for teeth. We turned them into puppets, so be on the lookout for these scary monsters soon!

Reminders:

• Library books are due back next Tuesday 11/6/18
• P/T Conferences are on 11/13/18

Enjoy the photos and have a great weekend! As always, please feel free to reach out through email with questions or concerns.

Warmly,
Sarah and Jill