Halloween week

It was a "spook"tacular week celebrating Halloween in

kinder-prep!  

Our student of the day shares his special friend from home 

Table top centers 

I loved all the pumpkin designs from home! They were so creative! 

Making spiders from our hand prints 

Painting candy corn to match the exact candy colors in order. We are so smart!

We can read our color words all by ourselves! 

"Look, I made the letter T with Legos." 

Great spider 

What a good looking bunch! 

Without peeking, pulling out an orange or black spider for a counting exercise 

Trick or treating in the other classrooms 

and down the sidewalk to Edward Jones 

Party time!  Icing Halloween cookies. Yum! 

Making pumpkin picture frames and playing Bingo 

Counting and graphing ghost marshmallows 

Beautiful! 

Making pumpkin faces 

We even wrote our own sentence this week about our costume.  We knew how to write the words, "I" and "a" and "am" was modeled for us.  Then we wrote down the sounds we heard for the name of our costume spelling it ourselves.  WOW!!  I am so proud of these little ones and how hard they try in class each week. :)

Pumpkin Week!

We loved being little scientists this week and exploring the pumpkin inside and out.  We explored the properties of sink and float testing our pumpkin and other objects in the room, and dug inside to scoop out the seeds and "gooey stuff" with our friends.  We also had the Lafayette Fire Department visit us with their cool truck and teach us about fire safety.  We always love when they visit us! 

This little friend is writing his siblings' names during table top centers. :) 

Painting pumpkins at the art table 

We love to explore the new rollers, cutters and holiday shapes with our wonderful homemade Play-doh (thank you Mommy Play-doh makers!). 

We strengthened our fine motor skills by hammering golf tees into our pumpkin with kid friendly hammers.  This was so fun! 

Painting is more fun with friends nearby. :) 

Our student of the day shares his special toy. 

Another student of the day shares a picture she drew. 

Our firefighter friends teach us about safety 

They showed us their uniforms

and their awesome truck and tools. 

We even got to go through it and out the other side. 

 

 

We are getting really good at graphing! 

We water colored a pumpkin that said "Jesus shine in me." 

We were able to write our numbers, cut them apart, and glue them in order on a sentence strip.  So smart! 

This friend made Lego rows to match the number.

Matching upper and lowercase letters :) 

When we finally cut into our pumpkins, we had to explore the insides with all of our senses.  We smelled it, felt all the insides and even tried pumpkin seeds (cooked of course. ha!). 

Digging out the seeds and exploring with friends 

 

This little pumpkin is writing his letters on pumpkins. :) 

Taking care of baby 

We love to use our hand print for crafts.  This green hand became the pumpkin leaf. 

Finally, we grouped our pumpkin seeds in groups of 10's so that we could easily count them. We had such great helpers!

 

 

A little video of us singing our new color song, white.