Fall and Halloween


Halloween

We had a wonderful week together. For our Halloween celebrations we drew a haunted house. We added several Halloween characters as well as fall things that we have been practicing as French vocabulary. The kids then wrote about the picture they drew.
On Monday we made trees out of paper bags. The children used what we have been learning about fall to add leaves to the trees. On Tuesday for Halloween, we brainstormed a list of Halloween words. The children used plasticine, felt and pipe cleaners to make their paper tree haunted. They had a lot of fun with this activity. 
Tuesday afternoon, we changed into our costumes and the children drew a picture of themselves in their costume. Then we went to the gym for the Halloween parade.
It was a fabulous celebration!

Fall

The class as a whole really enjoys writing stories and has a good stamina for drawing and writing. So in the next week we are going to spend time talking about what makes a good story. We will discuss the elements of a story (people/ problem/solution). We will focus on both telling and writing stories. We are also going to retell stories that I read in class. 

Math

We are continuing with sorting objects and making different patterns. The goal for this week is for everyone to feel comfortable making a repeating pattern with 3 or more elements. Most of the children are already comfortable making a pattern with 2 elements.
As you may have noticed from the pictures on Ed Inform, our math baskets this week are about exploring with different shapes to make new pictures and stories. 

Things you can do at home:

  1. Have your child make up stories. This is especially a good activity for passing the time in the car! 
  2. Look for patterns in the house such as: on blankets, clothes, rugs, towels and upholstery. 
  3. continue to practice counting things in French (up to 30 or more)
  4. Keep reading together. Ask you child to find small words such as "a" and "the" or to find a certain letter such as "o" on the pages you read. 



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