Important Dates

· Thursday, October 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. The Blue Whales will meet families 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.

· Wednesday, November 4th and Thursday, November 5th: SPIRIT DAYS – Wear your school shirt or our blue class color.

Quote of the Week

“I can stand on my tippy toes. When I got this age I just knew how to do it.” – One of the many talents of our Blue Whales.

The children were very busy decorating our classroom this week with spider webs, spiders, bats, skeletons, creepy cloths and Halloween garland. It was a true group effort, and they really enjoyed the ownership of decorating their classroom.

Everyday items were used to make more Halloween items. Everyone enjoyed making the salad spinner pumpkins and the Kleenex ghosts.

We adorned classroom pumpkins with golf tees and hammers. And the children didn’t even realize that they were working on their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. The children are always learning through their play.

We decorated our individual pumpkins this week based on the work by artist Yayoi Kusama. We read her biography and learned that she is from Japan and saw the world through dots. She translated that to her artwork and touched upon the concept of infinity. It led to a wonderful discussion about the dots in her artwork and infinity. The Blue Whales had various resources to make dots on their pumpkins, such as q-tips, tips of pencils erasers, pom pom brushes, dot gems and push pins. They loved being artists and it was so fun to see how different each pumpkin turned out.

We had Guess-n-Tell and Ledger 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 Ledger’s item because he gave us great clues.

The Blue Whales brought their best smiles and did a great job with school photos. We even had two friends wearing the same beautiful dress. That was very exciting!