A Halloween to Remember
/Hello All!
The Whales had a fabulous week full of spooky activities, and Halloween fun! This week in the Whales classroom the Whales worked on a new art project. We read the book, “Monsters Love School”, and started to create our own funky, and silly monsters. We used oil pastels as well as water color to make our monsters POP! The Whales were so creative and every monster has its own fabulous features! The Whales will be wrapping up their Monster Art next week and they will be hanging in the cubby area. Be on the lookout for some silly monsters!
During Writers Workshop, the Whales have been having one-on-one conferences with Ms. Abby to talk about their current story that they are working on. In our conferences we are talking to Ms. Abby about the beginning, middle, and end to our story. The Whales are creating some amazing endings that are making the reader want to read more! The Whales are also working on stretching out their words. We are moving from just beginning letter sounds, to spelling whole CVC words! It is incredible to see the Whales brains continue to stretch and grow!
In Numeracy, this week the Whales are continuing to work on addition. They played a spooky game of Spider Web Roll. In this game the Whales play against a friend. Each have their own spider web. They take turns rolling a die and putting that many flies on their web. They also are writing a number sentence to show what they rolled and put on their spider web. After they have rolled twice and put their flies on their web, they add all of their flies together. The friend who has more flies all together wins the game. At home ask your Whale some simple addition problems (5+2, 7+3, 4+1).
On Halloween, the Whales had a great artistic morning of creating masks, making spooky ghost cards, story telling with witches and pumpkins, and magical painting. The Whales had a fun time showing each other their costumes. During our day, we did a choral reading of the story “Five Little Pumpkins”. The Whales did a great job using their linger finger and pointing out heart words that we have learned. Ask your Whale to read you their book at home this weekend! At the end of the day, the Whales were so EXCITED to walk in the annual ELC Costume Parade. They looked great as they waved to people who were watching the Parade. The Whales are now ready to have a restful weekend after a busy week!
