Halloween and Senses

Monday Come in Halloween Costume—It’s a Halloween Party!

Seat Work-Halloween Bingo

Practice writing names

Weather/Calendar

Introduce Theme and Letter and Number of the Day—Letter O and Number 0

Counting

Music Circle Time

Hello Song

Instruments—The Addams Family with bells

Social—“What are you going to be on Halloween Night?”

Counting—Spider has 8 legs

Music Appreciation/Readiness—Major and Minor sounds

Small and Large Movement Skills—Monster Mash

ABC/Reading—Musical Chairs w/ ABC’s & This is Halloween

Singing—Child Chooses Songs—Teach Have you seen the Ghost of John/ I’m a mean old witch with a Hat. 

Creating Project (arts and crafts)—Sponge Painting—Jack-o-lanterns

Free Time-choose activity inside or outside before snacks

Snack time—decorate your own Halloween sugar cookie

Reading Time –Halloween stories

Writing assignment (numbers and/or letters)

Group Motor Activity—Outside Ball Throwing and Catching

Math/Science Skills—Learn on top, under, in, out, before, after, up, down with our Halloween spider

Story time—Spooky stories. /Goodbye Song

Tuesday-Senses

Seat Work

Practice writing names

Weather/Calendar

Introduce Theme and Letter and Number of the Day- Letter O, and Number 0

Counting

Music Circle Time

Hello Song

Instruments—Indentify Instruments by hearing not seeing—then choose a favorite instrument to play for jam time. 

Social—Important Things sung to Twinkle Twinkle (Seeing, hearing, touching too, are important things to do.  

Smelling, tasting something new helps us learn the whole day through.  Seeing hearing touching too are important 

things to do.)  Discuss what we learn through our five senses)

Counting—I’ve Got 5 little fingers

Music Appreciation/Readiness—Treble and Bass Clef

Small and Large Movement Skills-Open and Shut Them

ABC/Reading—ABC Train with the whole alphabet

Singing—Child Chooses Songs

Creating Project (arts and crafts)-Fingerpainting

Free Time-choose activity inside or outside before snacks

Snacktime-Fruit Cocktail

Reading Time

Writing assignment (numbers and/or letters)

Group Motor Activity-Who’s Got the button?

Math/Science Skills-Guessing Smells blindfolded (onions, pickles, tuna, orange)

Storytime

Goodbye Song

Wednesday and Thursday

Seat Work

Practice writing names

Weather/Calendar

Show and Tell- Today we will share a favorite stuff animal they like to hold and love

Introduce Theme and Letter and Number of the Day

Counting

Music Circle Time

Hello Song

Instruments-Mary Had a Little Lamb—drum rhythm of rhyme

Social—have children show how they touch and cuddle their stuff animal

Counting—tap the child on the back with a drum stick have the child identify how many taps and then have them 

repeat that number on a drum.

Music Appreciation/Readiness—Grand Staff teach spaces and line notes

Small and Large Movement Skills—Tickle Time

ABC/Reading—Alphabet Rumba

Singing—Child Chooses Songs

Creating Project (arts and crafts)—textured coloring

Free Time-choose activity inside or outside

Reading Time

Writing assignment (numbers and/or letters)

Group Motor Activity- Senses Walk-Take Popcorn Snack with us for sense of taste

Math/Science Skills—guess an object by touching in a sack

Storytime

Goodbye Song

Announcements:  

• Monday is Halloween and your child is welcomed to come dressed up today for our Halloween Party!  
• November is here Tuesday I will send a new calendar home so watch for that and November monthly tuition is due this week.  
• Wed and Thursday is Show and Tell, please have your child bring a favorite stuff animal they love to hold and cuddle with.  We are talking about all of our senses this week. 
• Check your child's backpack for the photo release form and please turn that in by the end of the week.  I have taken a bunch of pictures from our pumpkin walk, so I'm hoping to go through them soon and send you each a few pictures on e-mail.  

Homework Challenge:  Because our senses are so important for us to learn, I would encourage you and your child to talk about your senses this week. Here is an example you could do at home.  Did you know our tongue has 3,000 taste buds, have them look at their tongue to see all their taste buds.  When we taste foods we taste things bitter, sweet, sour, or salty.  You can make lemonade together and have them try the bitter lemon rind, the sour lemon fruit the sweet sugar and then the final finished lemonade deliciously sour/sweet.  You can also take your child on a walk blindfolded and have them identify cars, leaves rustling, wind, and dogs barking just with their hearing sense.