We All Make Believe on Halloween!
Wood Acres families,
Trick or Treat smell my feet, give me something good to eat! Pumpkins made for a festive treat, as we “pick” our way through another great week. This week will be fill with cauldron of activities that would spook even the scariest of creatures. For creativity, we will create ghost windsocks, spiders hats. The children love to sing and dance, so ask them “The Five Little Pumpkin” dance. This week, we will be reviewing numbers one through five. For group activitie, we will play Halloween bingo game to help identify numbers, sort counting bears in groups of five and one on one correspondence as we lace beads to create a number bracelet.
Investigator Club. This we we will be focusing on the following:
Oral Language: What’s in the bag?
The objective is to use increasingly complex and complex and varied spoken vocabulary.
Music: “Great Auntie Lou loves to Paint”
The objective is to understand conversations, stories, songs and plays l.
Science: Experiment with the Number Magnets.
The objective is to use simple tools to gather information, participate in an investigation, think about, and discuss what happened.
Reminders:
We would like to welcome Mrs. Hillery as our mystery reader this Friday. We are looking forward to having her as part of our fun Friday and listening to some of Caden’s favorite story books.
Fun Friday is Hat and Sprit day. Wear your favorite hat to school and your Wood Acres shirt.
Our Halloween party is this Thursday, October 31st. If you have not done so, please send in a bag of candy or goodies for your child to trick or treat amongst the class. Remember to keep a close eye on the ingredients due to severe peanut allergy in our class. It doesn’t have to be candy, you can send in stickers, glow sticks, bracelets etc to share amongst the class. Thanks you!
We are thankful that you will invite your friends and neighbors to our Fall Prospective Family Open House on Sunday, November 2nd from 2:00 – 4:00 pm. It is a fabulous time to meet the wonderful teachers, explore the Wood Acres campus, and learn all about a Wood Acres education!
Thanksgiving feast will be held in November 20th at 10:30. Please save the date as we would like to see you all attend and give thanks as a family. The children will preform two songs for you that we will be learning within the next several weeks. Please look out for your assigned dish in your child’s folder weeks to come. We are looking forward to being thankful together as a family.
Early dismissal is on November 22nd. We will dismiss the children during carline at 12:45. Lunch will be provided that that. If for some reason you are unable to pick up your child please make sure you make other arrangements to do so. Thank you!
We hope you have a Spooky week!
Ms. Orsano and Mrs. Thomas
