Oh Boy! Next week is a big week! Our friend Gil will be visiting. Gil is every child's favorite naughty gingerbread man and the kids can't wait for December to be over so they can meet him. This week, we reviewed shapes and numbers and built on identifying skills for both. We used different shapes to make our cities. The children really had their creative juices flowing and it was wonderful to see it. We also practiced number identification by snipping our scarecrows apart and putting them back together in number order. The computer center was very popular this week. Our new classroom program is a hit and every child works independently on different skills, at his/her own pace. In our art cenetr, shaving cream shapes was a great hit! We ended our week introducing opposites!

It's that time of year again! The PTA Holiday Shop is back! In your child's folder you can find an envelope to place the money that you would like your child to spend and specify how much money should be spent and for whom the gift should be purchased for. Our three year old class will not be attending the holiday shop but are welcomed to shop with and adult during the Holiday Concert on December 5th.

I hope that everyone enjoys their weekend.

Mrs. Gilberti

Gobble Gobble is pretty much what I did over Thanksgiving Day! I hope your holiday was just just as filled with food, family and friends as mine was! We had so much fun getting ready for the holiday. The children really enjoyed making their turkey sticks and learning about the Native Americans and Pilgrims. On Wednesday, we all watched The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and munched on porcorn and pretzels. I absolutely loved making the Thankful Trees. It is always so funny and sweet, at the same time, to hear what the children are thankful for. Overall, it was a great shortened week!

Mrs. Gilberti

I hope that everyone had a great weekend. We had a very busy week last week. We finished up our harvest basket. We filled it it up with yummy vegetables. Speaking of vegetables, I was so proud to see our preschoolers enjoying the vegetables that I brought in for our taste test. Some of my students were sooooo brave to try a vegetable they had never tried before! Well, I

guess having some ranch dip did help a little! We graphed our favorite vegetable and as I thought, carrots had the most votes for favorite vegetable. On Friday, we introduced the letter T. We worked on the sound of T and how to make a T using our wooden sticks. We also had some fun decorating our turkey and T with pom poms.

We only have a few more day until Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving break! Please remember that Wednesday is a half day, and P.M. session will be joining the A.M. session. The children will be let out at 11:00. Also, Stall Day is here again! We will be collecting loose change to donate towards Thanksgiving dinners and holiday cards for Oxford Families.

Mrs. Gilberti

It was great to have everyone back this week. I'm sorry that all school festivities were cancelled but very happy to see a few of our preschoolers out trick-or treating, on Saturday! Thank you to everyone who came to our parent/teacher conferences. I enjoyed talking to you all about your children.

We continued to work on letter H this week and introduced letters V and S. We have begun to work on our Harvest baskets and talked a lot about vegetables and healthy foods.

Please remember that tomorrow is picture retake day! please return the photos that you do not want. Enjoy your weekend.

Mrs. Gilberti

This is just a quick reminder that if there should be a delay to the start of our school day, all a.m. students should report to the cafeteria no later than 10:20. Their day will end at 12:20. The p.m. class will start their day at 1:00 and can be picked up at the front of the building, at 3:00. I hope everyone keeps warm and safe. Fingers are crossed that the storm will be kind to us all.

Mrs. Gilberti

I can't belive it is Friday already and Halloween is around the corner. Let's hope that Frankenstorm doesn't hit us too bad and that everyone has power. The last thing we all want or need is a replay of last Halloween. Speaking of Halloween, our party is still scheduled for Wednesday, as long as all is well and we have power. The a.m. class will be celebrating with light snacks and pumpkin decorating, at 10:00. You are free to take your child home with you after the festivities. Our morning class is also welcomed to join us for the school parade at 1:45. Please have your child in our classroom, for line up by 1:40. After the parade, we will bring your child back out to you, in the front lobby. For our p.m session, after the scheduled 1:45 parade, we will regroup in our classroom for light snacks and pumpkin decorating. For those of you that are bringing in snacks, please be sure to follow the school guidelines of nut free snacks and no candy. Also, Tuesday will be picture retakes. If you would like your child's photo retaken, please return the ones you don't want.

We had a wonderful Red Ribbon Week and our preschoolers enjoyed being part of the school wide activities. We met real heros, from our community, on Wednesdays. the kids even got to check out a tank and ambulance. Today, we were joined by some of our 8th graders to work on our Red Ribbon activity. Of course, the 8th graders loved being in our classroom. Why wouldn't they? We do have a lot of fun. We graphed with ghost marshmallows, we made handprint bats, tissue paper pumpkins, Halloween wood masks and dressed our paper bears as pumpkins, all in one week! It was another wonderful week. Be safe and let's hope Sandy plays nice!

Mrs. Gilberti

Aren't the colors around us so beautiful? This week, the kids and I enjoyed looking at the leaves, comparing sizes and colors. We went on a leaf hunt and made beautiful collages with the leaves and hung them in our room. What was most interesting was learning that different tress have different leaves. The kids filled my room with maples leaves that they picked up before coming to school but as their teacher, I was so proud when they identified what type of leaf it was. We learned about the letter P, practicing the sound and how to properly write the letter P. The children loved coming up with words that start with the letter P. We enjoyed painting brown paper bags orange and turning them into jack-o-lanterns using shapes. It was great to use the jack-o-laterns to indentify emotions by looking at their faces. Practicing patterning with pumpkins was fun too. In our art center we enjoyed leaf rubbing. The computer center was very popular this week. The children really are doing a great job moving the mouse around on their own. Please remember that next week is red ribbon week. Monday will will kcik off Red RIbbon Week by wearing red. On Tuesday, we will all be wearing camouflage in the fight against drugs. Also, picture retakes will be Tuesday. If you would like your child's picture retaken, please return the unwanted photos. Next week, I will send home information about our Halloween party. Thank you to those who volunteered as classroom Mom. Have a great weekend. Mrs. Gilberti