Halloween

We heard the story What is Halloween? today.  Then we learnred the fingerplay about 5 little ghosts.  We learned the hand motions to go with the poem, then we decided to act it out.  5 kids were ghosts. As the rhyme counted down, each child went to find a place to hide, until one ghost was left.  That one got to sneak up behind a classmate in the circle and say "Boo!"  Then everyone ran around as the 5 ghosts chased them!  We switched spots and did it again so everyone got to have a chance to be a ghost  and to be chased! 

We went outside to play.  We've been working on putting on our jackets, hats, and gloves by ourselves as well as zipping, snapping, and buttoning.  It's great to see how excited the kids are when they can finally get their jacket on, or zip, or whatever by themselves....they are so proud of themselves!!  (And we're so proud of them too!!)  Emma showed us a trick for putting on our jackets.  Lay the jacket on the floor, stand by the hood side bend over and put both hands in the sleeves, then pick up the jacket and bring it over your head, voila...!  The kids had fun trying this today before we went out for recess.  

We finished making our Halloween Monsters today.  Here's a picture of the finished products!

We also learnred about the letter H today.  We used Do-a-Dots to create the letter H with Mrs. Chyko during activity time!

Yesterday we went outside to look at our tree.  All off the leaves have fallen off.  We talked about how it's sleeping until spring when it will wake up again and we'll see buds and leaves growing on the tree!  

We also all finished painting a pumpkin at the easle.  We have got such artistic children in this class!!