This week will be full of fun, filling things, faces, fuzzy things and the numbers four and five while we practice a new Coping Skill. Read on to learn more about our week.
Our main Story Time book is Apples and Pumpkins and it is at our local library. We also have a couple of copies including a Big Book format. This book gives us the opportunity to remember A Week when we worked with apples. There are also some “danger” pages I’m sure you’ll hear about.
F Week Activities
Here are some F things for the week you can look for in photos, conversations and backpacks!
Faces on Pumpkins: Since children are invited to come in costumes this week, paint and markers are limited. For our art work this week we’ll only need crayons and glue for our paper.
Fuzzy the F: Oh Fuzzy I predict you may be a favorite Alphabet Friend because you will feel so soft. Lots of glue is used to get the variety of furry and fuzzy fabric to stay.
Costume drawing: if you’ve been around this preschool for any number of years you may know that every year (since at least 2010 when I started this website!) I draw pictures of the children in their costumes. It starts today and will go on all week. Note: children don’t have to wear or even have their costume along for me to draw, I follow directions as best I can.
Pumpkin play: Ms Kristin did some pumpkin rearranging work. The little pumpkins moved to the Water Table, a big pumpkin went in the Tub Table (fill it up! dump it out!) and the pumpkin cookie cutters aren’t with the playdough but there are with kinetic sand. The pumpkin swing has a new plan: 2 at a time if someone wants to navigate it with a friend. Whew!
Here are 3 questions to learn more about our day:
What did you eat at snack time?
In the morning we had Fruit Snacks and Fruit cups from Ruthie. The Fruit snack wrappers were so exciting (with characters we recognized) that some friends taped them in their journals.
In the afternoon we had a birthday celebration for Cade with very fancy cookies, cheese sticks and apple sauce. Cade helped take the picture with his candle lit!
Thank you, Ruthie and Cade!
How many pumpkins did we fill at Circle Time?
6! We will use these outside when we practice Trick or Treating. Thank you, families for bringing us candy and treats! We are ending each day with Trick or Treat practice. Day number one included a lot of coming back to the teacher and calling out thank you. Well done, kids!
What was waiting on the playground for us to walk on?
Hay bales!
I am so grateful for Ms Brenda, Grandpa Kelven and Stutzman Greenhouse: we have a new circle of hay bales and enough gourds for each child! What a fun gift and tradition.
Bonus question about an elephant where the answer is no: Did an elephant pee on the block? No. But it sure looked like it. The elephant from last week must have still had water in it and when we played with them the water leaked out!
Coping Skill of the Week
This week we are exploring “Box breathing.” Like other breathing techniques, box breathing involves breathing in and out and holding the breath. It may help clear the mind, relax the body, and improve focus. Very important is to allow the body to return to a natural and spontaneous breathing pattern.
This week’s Coping Skill questions you can ask your child:
What shape do you call the box? (Ms Kristin calls it a square)
How many sides are there? Four!
What number are we counting to? Four!
What does four start with? F!
Idea for home: get a box and make a big 3D version of the Coping Skills picture!
REMEMBER: NO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK OCTOBER 29-31
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