Batty for Halloween in the OC - Teacher Sheri

We began this week making fold-over bats and ended it crawling through a spooky tunnel! Amidst the fun, we also worked on skills like patterning, shapes, and the alphabet.

There were lots of opportunities for play around the room and the kids stayed very busy!

Our table activities included making patterns with candy corn & pumpkins and playing a shape recognition game with our parent helpers.

Their hands got a good workout cutting lines to make ghosts. They are happily haunting our windows now!

The kids loved squeezing paint and using the fold-over technique to make some pretty colorful bats.

The other art they created was spooky pictures using twigs and google eyes peeking out from the dark.

The spooky tunnel set up out in the hallway was a big highlight for the week! Armed with flashlights, the kids crawled through it over and over again.

At carpet time, Teacher Lisa told a fun cut and tell story about a little mouse and a pumpkin. And another one about ghosts who turn different colors. Ask your kids to tell you all about them!

On Friday, we hid "alpha-bats" for the kids to find and place in the pocket chart. Then at carpet time, everyone had a turn. We also played a game called "I Have, Who Has" which was fun and challenging for them.

We danced to a skeleton bones song and did Halloween yoga - your kids can show you that, too!

Next week, we can't wait to wrap up October with more Halloween fun!

Take care, 
Sheri and Lisa