October 29, 2018 3:26 pm Pre-K Highlights Week of October 29^th – November 2^nd Weekly Theme: Halloween Fun Weekly Letter: Hh Weekly Number: 5 Happy Halloween Everyone! This week in Pre-K we will be having fun celebrating Halloween as well as learning about the letter Hh and the number 5. This week we will have fun carving a pumpkin and baking the seeds that we pull out. We will discuss the life cycle of a pumpkin seed and the steps we would need to take to grow our very own. During morning meeting on Monday, we will brainstorm a list of words starting with the letter H for our word wall. Students read an “Alphatales Letter Book” before our list is created. This helps them hear a variety of words for our specific letter. Wednesday is Halloween! Our morning will start with some fun centers before morning meeting where will discuss Trick-Or-Treating safety rules to prepare them for the night. Have fun! Our parade will begin at 10:45. Please send your child to school wearing his or her costume. Please also send in a labeled bag with a change of clothes (if your child wants to change). The rest of the week we will be building our fine motor skills with activities including finding letter H beads using tweezers, coloring a Halloween page that follows our story, creating a happy face collage with stickers, painting on the easel, using tweezers to get the fake spiders out of their webs, and cutting and pasting Halloween characters to complete our patterns. Weekly Literature: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson Mouse’s First Halloween by Lauren Thompson On Halloween Night by Ferina Wolff and Dolores Kozielski How to be a Happy Hippo by Jonathan Shipton Halloween Night by Arden Druce Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion Jack’s House by Karen Magnuson Beil Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler The Hippo-NOT-amus by Tony and Jan Payne Alphatales Letter H- Hide-and-Seek Hippo by Samantha Berger Reminders:

We plan to start reading groups next week. A letter will go home explaining how they will run.
If your child’s costume comes with a weapon, please leave the weapon at home.
Homework is due every Friday or the last day that your child attends school that week. Letter E pages.
We are so proud of the excellent work our students are doing on their homework and overall! Please continue to review the letters and numbers already taught.

Have a safe and fun Halloween, Ms. Kasey and Mrs. G

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Ms. Kasey Pre-K Highlights – October 29, 2018