Fairy Tale Week

On Tuesday, We heard Goldilocks and the Three Bears during circle time.  After we heard the story we all picked a character that we'd like to be and got a nametag with that character on it.  Then we acted out the story as we retold it....everyone chose to be one of the bears except for Naomi....she wanted to play Goldilocks!! 

We had music with Mrs. Jenkins and then we went into the kitchen and made porridge play dough!  We used flour, salt, cream of tarter, hot water, and porridge!!  (oatmeal)  We wateched how the dry ingredients changed into a liquid form and then we tried to change it into a dough form.  We went back to our snack table and we each got a blob of playdough and some oatmel to knead together.  During activity time we could play with the playdough, a Weebles play set of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, or 3 stuffed bears and a goldilocks puppet. We could also play with legos, the trains, the rice table, or put beads on pipe cleaners and make bracelets or necklaces! At the writing table we're learning to become authors.  We dictated a story to Mrs. Gould where we were the main character in Goldilocks.  After we wrote the story, Mrs. Gould read it back to us! 

Tori Hagenow is our Maple Leaf of the Week.  She  brought in a beautiful collage of pictures and told us all about them!  It was her birthday on Halloween so we celebrated today at school.  She brought in yummy Rice Krispie Treats to share.  Thanks Tori!!

On Wednesday we heard The Three Little Pigs.  We did a tally graph to find out who had heard the story before.  It turned out to be a split, 5 of us had heard the story before and 5 of us had not.  It was fun to listen to the story and chime in with the the words "Then he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in!!" And "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!"  We also had a lot of fun huffing and puffing and pretending to be the Wolf blowing in the pig's house!  During activity time we read a Rebus story of the 3 Little Pigs and then we colored it in.  This would be fun to reread at home with Mom and Dad.  (Just a suggestion...point to the words as you read the story with your child.  Let them fill in the missing word when you come to the pictures.  Talk about how your finger moves back to the left before reading the next line.  We've been working on "left to right tracking" all year, but it's a great skill to practice at home too!)

We had a chance to get outside and play for about 15 minutes.  It was such a great day to run around, climb on our equipment, play ball, roll in the leaves, and play with our friends.  

We had a special surprise at the end of the day.  Emma's Nana came in to show us 2 kittens.  Their names are Halloween (Hal) and Callie.  We all had a chance to pet the kittens and play with them, boy are they cute.  What a great way to end the day!!

Emma's Grandma has 2 other kittens and a mother cat looking for a good home.  Let me know if anyone would like one!!