Halloween Week...Day 4

On Thursday we started our day with  more cookie sheet magnetic games!

Match the monsters...

 Build a scarecrow...

 Is the animal beside the pumpkin or in between the pumpkins?

 Match the picture to the same ending sound...

 We played with transparent Halloween themed pictures on our light table!  We also played with an assortment of acrylic pieces (acorns, apples, leaves, pumpkins, and owls.  We practiced sorting...

 We practiced our counting and one to one correspondence...

 We practiced making patterns...

 Here L and N are playing a game with with the acrylic pieces...

 We made Halloween sensory bags!  I filled gallon sized Ziploc bags with orange and green soap and an assortment of Halloween toys...

 The kids loved playing with the leftover toys!

 We also put our sensory bags on the light table...

 The kids had fun watching me make lunch today!  The mummy hot dogs brought on a very interesting conversation (these are all the kid's comments/statements/questions)...

"We are eating mommies?!?"

"NO MUMMIES!"

"What are mummies?"

"I don't know...maybe aliens?"

"No!  They are just people wrapped in paper."

"Why are they wrapped in paper?"

"Because they have owies."

"Why?"

"I don't know.  They just do."

"Are our mommies mummies?"

"Are our mommies aliens?" 

"They might be!"

This concluded with J---b telling a story about an alien mommy and what she might do to be scary!  

Ha ha ha ha!

Don't you all wish you could be a part of these cute conversations everyday?!

 These give new definition to mummy dogs!!!  So much fun!

 "I bit the mummy's head off!"

 Our story today was "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything!"  We built a matching scarecrow on the felt board!

 For snack I made the kids monster hands with popcorn and candy corn!

Halloween Week...Day 3

On Wednesday we started our day with a emergent reader mini book about counting spiders.  We have been doing a lot of these lately.  My hope is that the consistent exposure to sight words will help the kids learn to read!

 Look at those beautiful blue eyes!

 We played a dice game of "Roll and Cover."  We used paint dobbers and a printable pumpkin worksheet...

 We played magnetic games on cookies sheets!  The kids loved these!

Here is match the pumpkin by its shape...

 Place the pumpkin in numerical order...

 Match the beginning sounds to the letters...

 Match the rhyming words...

 The kids loved completing a game, tapping off the pieces and then doing it again...

 Pumpkin measuring!  We had to figure out which pumpkin was the heaviest and which was the lightest...

 We cut the top off of a pumpkin and pulled the pumpkin guts out!  Only about half the group actually wanted to participate with this one...

 I asked S if she wanted to, and she replied "Yes."  She went over to the pumpkin and looked inside and then gave me this look.  I could tell with her eyes she was saying "Do I really have to?"  :)  I laughed at how cute she was, but I let her opt out on this one...

 Pumpkin pounding time!  We pounded golf tees into the pumpkin!  This was great for hand eye coordination!

 For story time we read "Go Away Big Green Monster" and retold the story with the matching felt pieces...

 For snack time we ate ghost bananas, and pumpkin oranges!

 At the end of the day we lit up our polka-dot pumpkin with a battery powered pumpkin light!  I also roasted the pumpkin seeds during nap time.  They were delicious!

 She didn't know what to think of the pumpkin seeds at first, but ended up eating a TON!  She loved them!

 This little guy loved them too!

 Before going home we made ghost suckers with Kleenexes!