This week the Blue Whales were food critics. We had an apple tasting with four different varieties of apples (Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Honeycrisp). All the Blue Whales tried every variety and rated them with a happy face or sad face and then picked their favorite apple variety.
The Blue Whales enjoyed listening to The Leaf Thief and talking about wind. They used their own wind to create some fall leaves.
We read Ten Apples Up on Top and tried to paint ten apples on top of our heads with real apples. The Blue Whales tried to stack apples to discover for themselves how hard it would be to stack 10 apples. And our Blue Whales had fun trying to walk around with one apple on top of their heads. They explored all the parts of an apple with real apples.
We had Guess-n-Tell and Liam did a great job with three clues about his item and calling on friends to guess the item. The Blue Whales were able to guess Liam’s item because of his great clues.
Henry’s family read an exciting pirate book to the class to celebrate his birthday. Henry treated his friends to delicious muffins and a fun pirate goody bag. The Blue Whales enjoyed our first birthday celebration.
I really enjoyed parent conferences this week. I appreciate all of you taking the time to meet with me and strengthening our home and school partnership.
Important Dates and Information for October:
· Friday, October 13th and Monday, October 16th - Preschool is closed for Fall Break and Teacher Professional Development
· Tuesday, October 17th – Celebrate Kellan’s Birthday
· Wednesday, October 18th – Individual Photos by David Gellatly (we will not have messy activities that day)
· Wednesday, October 25th – Fire Truck visit (always dependent on any emergencies that may come up)
· Tuesday, October 31st - 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 9:00 a.m. The Blue Whales will meet parents and special grown-ups outside in front of the church at 9:30 a.m. and start our parade with the Yellow Ducks class. Families are welcome to dress up too. Please help your child change out of their costume after the parade. If you are OK with them wearing their costume all day that is fine too, but we will be our normal messy selves and play outside that day
· If each child could bring in a small pumpkin by Monday, October 23rd, we will be using them for an art project.
We are enjoying creating, moving, singing, discussing, observing, reading and playing with our Blue Whale friends. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.