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Bright Beginnings Preschool

Babble

October 11, 2010

Upcoming Events:

October 22 Children’s Night Out “Boo, its Halloween!”

5:30 - 8:30

October 28 & 29 Halloween Celebrations (see signup sheets in classrooms)

November 5 Children’s Night Out “Pilgrim Times”

5:30 - 9:00

November 10 Staff Appreciation Day

We are always looking for new or gently used toys for our classrooms!! If you have any and would either like to donate them or sell them for “yard sale” prices, please let us know!

Financial Memo:

For Children’s Night Out we require a minimum of eight children.  We ask that you give us 24 hours’ notice if you will be canceling for the evening, otherwise you will be charged for the night.  We secure our staff based on the number of children that have signed up in addition to other costs such as food and supplies.  

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I would like to thank the Bright Beginnings staff, families, and children for your visits, cards, gifts and flowers. This sure brightened my days; I will be working my way back to school very soon!! I have missed all of you and thanks again!!

Love Ms. Teena

Monkey:

This week in the Monkey room we are still practicing our emotions. We are singing the Polar Bear song daily and reading books on emotions. We have been working with counting and color a lot this week! We are spending time doing puzzles, building with Legos and playing with play dough. For Art we are painting with foam blocks to make a rectangle. We will also be coloring number fours, making pumpkin seed art, painting with pipe cleaners and painting with leaves! Congratulations to Gabriel’s family for the birth of their new baby boy Jacob! Also congratulations to Andrew’s family for finding out they will be having a baby girl!!

Giraffe:

This week the Giraffe class continued learning about apples and color changes of the trees. We will sort leaves by color, shape and size. The Giraffes also went emotions, what makes them happy, sad and mad. We will also start singing the autumn leaves song (you can find songs on our class board). We continued learning our shapes, colors, numbers, and letters. We will try to identify the number four, a rectangle, K and the color orange by the end of the month. Please look for the October Pumpkin Patch sign-up sheet and information letter.

Tiger:

Since Monday was Columbus Day we learned all about Christopher Columbus! We made our own ships just like his. We are continuing to do fun fall activities including acorn marble painting, leave art and different activities with pumpkins. Be sure to check out the sign-up sheet outside of the Tiger classroom for this month’s Field Trip and Halloween Parties.

Lion:

This week the Lions are roaring about fall and Halloween. We have had lots of fun observing leaves, acorns, chestnuts and walnuts! We really enjoyed carving a pumpkin and putting the insides in Ziploc bags to feel, count, and observe seeds for Project Green. For Art this week, we made pumpkins, pumpkins sitting on a gate and Jack-O-Lanterns. During community meeting with the Elephants, we sang songs about sailing (Christopher Columbus Day) and learned some new festive songs (posted at circle carpet). We continue to talk about the letter Kk and work in our journals.  Our Fall Festival is coming up soon; please see the door to sign-up.

Elephant:

This week the leaves have been falling in the Elephant room. The letter K was talked about and what words start with K, including Kaleigh! We counted acorns in the sand. We went on a hunt for different color leaves and made our own fall trees. We sang songs during our community meeting. We read a lot of new stories this week! Our new favorite books are “Room on the Broom” and “Speedy Little Race Cars.” We loved talking about what happens in the fall and making our own Jack-o-Lanterns. Counting is going well! We can count along with each other. This week we loved counting the acorns Ms. Maggie brought in! We are all looking forward to next week!

Zebra:

We had so much fun this week reading The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything! It’s a funny story about a lady who, on her way home, meets shoes, pants, a shirt, two gloves, a hat, and a scary pumpkin head trying to scare her. This book has a lot of repetition, allowing the children to join in reading each page. We easily acted out the book by making real shoes “clomp”, pants “wiggle”, and a pumpkin head “booing”. Some of our other activities for the week included a math graph asking if we’d feel scared if we saw the pumpkin head. Although a few of us said yes, the majority graphed “no”. On Friday, we wrote what we’re afraid of and made a list of things that don’t scare us at all! For Art, we painted pictures of pumpkins. We also made construction paper pumpkins and a class book about the Little Old Lady. We used real pumpkins to estimate size and had a lot of fun hammering golf tees into pumpkins for a neat sensory center.

Chameleon:

This week we are continuing to discuss leaves and seasons. We began the week by graphing whether or not we would jump in a leaf pile. We also made leaf patterns and began the Ready Reader “Stop!” In our journals this week, we are continuing our work with the letter K, and in our math journals, we are working on rectangles. We have been sorting nuts, leaves, and gourds, as well as playing autumn bingo. For Language Arts, we wrote about why we like fall, the great things about trees, and what we know about the four seasons. We also practiced writing color words. On Friday, we used the book “Why Do Leaves Change Color?” to do a LEA about what we know and want to learn about leaves. For Art, we made leaf prints, acorn marble painting, tie-dye leaf mobiles, a leaf wreath, and a season’s class book.