A Fantabulous Day!

Boy did we have a fun (and busy) day. You tired your teacher out! Of course, our day began with our parade! The kids had so much fun seeing all of you and showing off their costumes. We got to go right down to the festival fun after the parade. And, after that, we went to gym! Not so much learning the first half but lots of fun!

We had a shadow from The Phoenix School today. She also attends church at St. John's and is interested in a career with children. Her name was Rory and she spent the first half of the day with us.

Because our letter was H, we made hedgehogs from triangles and circles. They turned out really cute. Then, we did our sight word (THE) song and followed-up with the writing page. Everyone is really getting good at writing!

This week we talked about monsters so we made a fun monster craft from toilet paper rolls. The kids had fun naming their monster and just dreaming up fun while getting creative with the decor.

We had such a busy morning and we decided a little yoga might calm us all down. Mrs. E. led the way with some deep breathing and some toe-touching. It worked! Thank goodness!

We also talked about how a bunch of words together make sentences that tell stories and do so much more. With that discussion, we shared the notion of "syllables" with the kids. We went through a list of kids' names and clapped everytime we stopped to emphasize a syllable. Then, we sent the kids to their desks and gave them a picture of a cartoon monster with large teeth. They also got some candy corn and were instructed not to eat it ... yet. Each time Mrs. E. spoke a Halloween term, they were to determine how many syllables were in the word. Once they did that, they were instructed to put that many "candy corn" teeth on the monster! This was great fun. One little classmate kept clapping out every word we said from that point on ... for the rest of the day! We just laughed and giggled at his excitement.

To end the day we did a little sugar cookie decorating. The kids got a sugar cookie with a dollup of orange icing. They used their fingers to spread it out on their cookie and decorated with some chocolate chips. To tell the truth, we were stuffed by then! So we did a quick scissor-cutting exercise. The kids got an orange piece of paper that was folded in half. There were some black lines on the paper and they were asked to cut on the lines then open the folded paper to see what they got! A jack-o-lantern!

Have a super weekend!

P.S. our fire dept. field trip is FRIDAY NOT WEDNESDAY of next week.