FRIDAY NEWSLETTER
Friday, October 22, 2010

This week our preschool pumpkins discovered that if they mix yellow and red paint, they can create their own shade of orange! There were lots of ooohhs and ahhhhs heard coming from our room, while we worked on mixing paints with our hands, to make our pumpkins orange! That’s not the only way we made pumpkins. Since we have been talking about shapes, we used different cut out shapes to create a pumpkin. Our crescent shape made the most perfect smile, and the triangle worked best as a nose! With all this talk about pumpkins, I almost forgot to mention that Mrs. Gifford helped us all with putting our lips together to make the P sound in pumpkin! We even made our own pumpkin patch, using small and big pumpkin cut outs and a hulla hoop! We circled the hulla hoop and sang our pumpkin song, and when our name was called, we each got to pick our favorite sized pumpkin from the pumpkin patch! It was a fun way to learn about big and small and how our pumpkins were the same, yet different!

Speaking of circles, this week our question of the week was about circles. We discovered that circles are all around us. We all agreed that some of our favorite foods and snacks are shaped like circle, such as M&M’s, and pizza! Since the weather was nice, we did get to go outside and one day we went to play outside with our parachute and rainbow bean bags, and to our delight, we were joined by Mrs. Sakos’ kindergarten class! They helped us with our colors and shaking the rainbow out of the parachute! After working so hard on shapes, colors, counting, snipping, gluing, letters, writing and fine motor skills, we decided that yoga was a good way to regroup and unwind!

This week we celebrated Michael’s 5th birthday! Thanks Michael for the yummy treats! Next week, we will be celebrating again with a Halloween party! We hope you can join us at 10 am for some yummy treats! Thank you to all who continue to donate wipes, hand sanitizers and tissues to our room! We do appreciate it! Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Gilberti