Our PreSchool Blog

The Creative Tots Halloween Party was a blast!  A special snack, crafts, and games made our classroom celebration lots of fun!

We practiced the fine motor skill of scooping to make a ghost to take home.

We played a ghost game of throwing the ghost into a basket.

Our bat hat craft was a big hit amongst the toddlers!  The children added eyes and fangs.  They had fun checking themselves out in the mirror.

There were some fun costumes this year too!  Lions, and pandas, and donuts…oh my!

Class pictures are always a fun challenge!

Everyone received a fun yummy treat to take home.  Trick or treat!

The Lego eating monster only likes legos that are the same color.  The kids took turns

feeding the monster with matching legos.

This monster likes beanbags.  Kids named the color of beanbag before they threw it in!

We embraced our October theme whole heartedly this month! What’s better than giving academic time a Halloween twist?? Here’s a taste of what we did this month!

Spider Counting!

Building letters with pumpkin seeds

Letter building with candy corn

Halloween cutting center

Feeding the Alphabet Zombie (he loves his letters!)

Acting out the Five Little Pumpkins

Spider swatting and number recognition!

Fall Number Mats

Wicked letter find and sort! 

Silly Monster Craft!

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate…  We have had so much fun with this little song.  We did an art project with pumpkin stickers, read several book versions, put 5 pumpkins on the magnet board, and acted the song out.  We also made yummy pumpkin muffins, decorated mini pumpkins with washi tape, and played hot pumpkin (a version of hot potato).  Our sensory bin for the month has been pumpkin seeds with scoops and tins to “make pumpkin pie”.  We also plan to use all of our senses to explore the outside and inside of a pumpkin!  Happy orange October!

The Preschoolers and Preschool Preppers have been apart of many fun, hands-on explorations this month! We opened up a pumpkin, made our own homemade applesauce and had some animals visit the classroom!

We have been learning about sorting in preschool this month.  We are teaching children to find matches and things that are the same.  We also practice using language to describe what makes those things similar, ie color, shape, size, etc.  We have been sorting many different materials and working hard to find their common attributes.  Our favorite were definitely these Halloween creatures!

Cool Critters visited our classroom today. We have been talking about what animals lay eggs….not just chickens! We got to interact with four animals that lay eggs: gecko, snake, millipede, & box turtle. One little critter did NOT lay eggs, the chinchilla! He was so soft and adorable. I think many of them would have snuck that little one into their backpack and taken it home, if we would have let them 🙂