Week of October 23-27

Dear families,

I hope you are having a great weekend! The kids are getting so excited about Halloween!

Last week was a busy one in Room 166! Our inquiry on monkeys took a rest for the week while our little monkeys did a lot of Halloween literacy and numeracy activities! The monkeys will swing back into the classroom next week!

This week we:

- did a Pumpkin Investigation about our classroom pumpkin
- sang the song "Halloween Night" at the Sharing Assembly - good job!
- counted and drew pumpkins and wrote the numbers
- made bead patterns with Halloween colours (black, white, orange, purple and... glow-in-the-dark beads!)
- drew a picture of ourselves in our Halloween costume and wrote what we will be for Halloween (this is now a class book)
- decorated Halloween treat Bat Bags with bat wings and batty eyes
- started making a book called "Halloween Colours" with our Reading Buddies
- read lots of Halloween books
- made a booklet about the life cycle of a pumpkin
- read the terrific book "Where's My Mummy?" by Laura Crimi, and did a text-to-self activity, made little selfie mummies and sequenced the story

We also completed the Signs of Fall booklet with our Reading Buddies, did our October Calendar and "This is Me in October," completed the little Read and Write Books for the sight words ME, AND, IS and CAN. The popcorn words of the week were AM and BE.

If you are going to send in treat bags for your child's classmates, please make sure they are nut free. The kids will enjoy sorting them and putting them in their Bat Bags on Tuesday!

Tomorrow is our field trip to the Farm! It's supposed to be the same temperature as today (9-10 C) so be sure to dress your child appropriately. It's going to be a fun day! Thank you SO MUCH to the moms of Elea, Ella, Hope and Anilee who have volunteered on this trip!
Thank you as well to Elea's mom who helped with last week's pizza lunch, and to Anilee's mom who was the Mystery Reader!

Next week we'll do more pumpkin investigations, will open up our classroom pumpkin and count the seeds, and will write about all the fun things we did on the field trip! On Halloween Day there is the Parade in the morning, then the Dance-a-thon (please send in a can of food for the Food Bank as admission), and the Halloween Craft Party in the afternoon! What a fun time of the year for the little ones!