Boo!

Once again I am a few days behind, but here it is in all it's Halloween glory! 

Monday we used 4 of our senses to discover what a pumpkin looks like, feels like, smells like, and sounds like. We decided to skip what a pumpkin tastes like for now because the germaphobe in me couldn't take 20 kids licking our poor little pumpkin. Ugh now I have an awful mental age of each kid coming up to take a lick and it makes me shudder! Now you might be saying "Roxanne you chose the wrong profession if you don't like germs", but trust me after being sneezed on by every child you have taught for 12 years really helps desensitize the crazy. And yes I said I have been teaching for 12 years! That blows my mind I have been doing what I love for so long! Oh how time flies when you're having fun!

After we all got a chance to discover the pumpkin with our senses we watched a video all about the life cycle of a pumpkin. Afterwards everyone used their super smart brains and memories to create our own pumpkin cycles. Cute and educational!

Tuesday we read the story Stellaluna. It is a story about a little bat who gets lost and goes to live in a nest of birds. Stellaluna thinks something is wrong with her because she is different then the birds because she is nocturnal and sleeps during the day and flies at night, doesn't like eating bugs, and sleeps upside down so she changes to be like them, but she knows it just doesn't feel right. Long story short Stellaluna finds her mom and realizes that even though they may be different they are still friends. I love this story because I feel like it kind of describes all of us down in 4k. We are all a little different, but we all love each other and are all friends no matter what. It is also a perfect book for us to learn a little about bats. We learned they are nocturnal (sleep at night), they eat fruit and some bats eat insects (just not Stellaluna), and they can see in the dark. After we finished our story we all graphed whether we thought bats were cute or creepy and then we made some awesome bat wing hats!

Wednesday we made our own classroom Jack-O-Lantern and everyone got a chance to help me scoop the goo out. We decided on a super simple BOO! pattern for our orange gourd. 

It seems a little blond monkey got a gold of my phone and deleted some of my Halloween photos. 

Naughty Monkey!

For jobs this week we measured bats with coins, paper clips, and candy corn and practiced writing the numbers.

We counted the dots in each Haunted House window and matched the ghost with the matching number. 

We counted out Halloween erasers. 

And we counted out "pumpkin seeds" which were actually dried corn kernels because Mrs. Roxanne couldn't find any dried pumpkin seeds beside the goopy ones we scooped out of pumpkin and no one wants to count with goopy pumpkin seeds! 

I think my favorite craft we worked in this week is our pumpkin names and Jack-O-Lanterns. We started on Monday by each finger painting a large sheet of paper. I told the kiddos I couldn't find my orange paint so we had to mix red and yellow together to make orange. While our papers dried everyone worked to find the pumpkins that had the letters in their names and they made a little name pumpkin patch. After our papers dried everyone free handed a circle on their orange finger painted papers and then they cut it out. This made for some fun shaped pumpkins which made them even more unique just like each one of our friends. Last, but not least we needed faces for our crazy Jack-O-lanterns. I love how different and unique each one turned out. 

Thursday we celebrated Halloween by dressing up and eating lots of delicious food. Isn't that why you are supposed to do? Our amazing parents put together some delicious and healthy treats which I forgot to snap pictures if amidst the chaos of the day. 1 thing I do want to say is how wonderful the babies were in this crazy day! They are always good listeners, but party days can get a little rowdy and they were fabulous, sweet, and polite. We played Halloween bingo, made some spiders, and ate lots of food. 

I am so sad this picture turned out so blurry because my babies looked so stinkin cute in their costumes. I am just happy most of them were actually looking at me, but I was pretty interesting standing on top of my big blue self in a care bear costume with no shoes. Good times down in 4K!

And if you thought she could do it Mrs. Douglas once again transformed Mr. Bear. He has now become a spooky Vampire!!
Don't worry he may have a life left in him to make it through Thanksgiving!

Hopefully everyone has detoxed from their sugar comas and are taking it easy after all of the Halloween fun!