HALLOWEEN PARADE on OCT. 30TH- We hope you can join us for our Halloween Costume Parade around Southern Village. Please send your child to school in their costume and drop them off at the classroom at our usual 9:00 a.m. time. The Yellow Ducks will meet families outside in front of the church at 9:25 a.m. on Oct. 30th and start our parade with the Blue Whales class (please note that the parade is NOT on the 31st!! We will do it on Thurs. since the Blue Whales are not in school on Friday). Families are welcome to dress up too. Please help your child change out of their costume after the parade before you leave. If you are OK with them wearing their costume all day (and they will be able to move & function) that is fine too, but we will be our normal messy selves and play outside that day. Our room reps, Carol Ann & Carrie, have organized a fun party for the children in our classroom with treats, art activity and game after the parade. Thank you all for donating!

FIRE TRUCK - The Chapel Hill Fire Dept will bring their truck for a visit on Monday , November 3rd! Usually the fire fighters show us how they look & sound when wearing all their gear. Then they take us, class by class, to look at the truck!

CCP will have SPIRIT DAYS on November 5 & 6. Wear your school shirt or class color (yellow).

Picture Day resulted in some of the cutest pictures I’ve seen! But…our funny face class photo literally made me laugh out loud. These Ducks are having so much fun and have truly bonded with each other now.

This week we have had a focus on shapes while we have some Halloween fun 🎃 We practiced drawing a triangle & square on the whiteboard. We also painted black bats and cut triangles to make their wings. They are hanging upside down, as bats do, in our window. We chose shapes to cut out and turned them into monsters in our journals. The children thought up some silly & spooky stories about the monster they created, too. We even read Spookley the Square Pumpkin and talked about how each of us is different (just like the shapes). At circle time we compared some shapes to solids. This week we discussed the differences between a triangle & a cone or pyramid and between a circle & sphere. We noticed shapes are flat and solids take up space & can be held.

Our loft became a campsite this week…Camp Quackiwaka! Everyone enjoyed building a campfire, roasting marshmallows, using the flashlights, and most of all having a turn to play some tunes on the guitar. Our new sign up sheet has worked very well & the Ducks are learning to manage their turns on their own.