H is for Happy Haunted Halloween

For Halloween in Preschool everyone was invited to dress up.

We started out introducing the letter Hh by painting some haunted houses with water colors.

Then on the black paper we added some spooky ghosts.

For our snack we made Haunted Houses

Or Gingerbread Houses made out of chocolate gram crackers.

I gave each person their own bowl of frosting.

Not economical, but more sanitary :).

This was great for their imaginations and fine motor skills!

And they surprisingly didn't eat very much candy,

well at least at school!

They all turned out fantastic,

M. was really proud of her house.

For Math we did a witches brew and sorted and counted our candies. We used monster fangs (candy corn), baby ghosts (mini marshmallows), and pumpkins (candy pumpkins) to sort.

We wrote down how many we had on our paper.

Which required lots of help from me, aka no pictures of that part. :)

For music time we read Ghosts in the House

By Kazuno Kohara

It's a non scary haunted house book about a witch who moves into a big house filled with ghosts.

She catches them all, washes them in the laundry, and uses them for curtains, table clothes and blankets.

For the music side of it, I turned on Halloween music and they acted out the book.  Here most of them are hanging their ghosts up to dry.

Then they lined up by the fan and let their ghosts fly through the room.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Letter W Week (Watermeon and Witches)

Today we did some more Ww work.

We read the book "My Ww Sound Box" by Moncure.

I love these sweet old books!

I was so excited to find the whole set at a thrift store!

In this book little w dresses up like a witch,

so we all dressed up like witches and wizards!

Although it was unseasonal, we had fun!

Luckily I could raid both grandma's costume closets to find enough costumes.

I made little wands for them to use during our morning work.

The liked the variety very much!

They are tracing the numbers here while listening to Dr. Jean's number song.

We also made some wands,

I had them trace around them on one side,

and the other side they drew a picture of their favorite thing that started with Ww.

We stood up with our wands and wrote the letter Ww in the air.

FUN!



We went upstairs for our watermelon snack,

which was also out of season,

but beloved by all!

I stuck these toothpicks in them so they could hopefully make the connection between the snack and the letter.

In preschool we are going for recognition, not mastery.

After our snack and playtime we did watermelon counting.

I let them have playtime at first to count the black beans,

then I held up numbers and had them put that many seeds on their melon.

We went up to ten and did some number work

Like put three seeds on one side and three on the other, how many do you have?

And, make sure you have four seeds, now add one more, how many do you have?

Things like that to help them to do higher level thinking.

If you ever do this idea, the cookie sheets or using a tray is a MUST!

It kept the seeds in one place much better.

Happy watermeloning!