Newseletter 7

Happy Halloween!! I hope everyone is having a spooky day.

We had a fallerific week in the Owl room. We read The Five Little Pumpkins again and played with our puppets. We love to count the pumpkins and look at the different shapes on their faces. We put our own face on a pumpkin while we talked about two eyes, one nose and a mouth. We talked about the shapes of the items- triangles and circle. We experimented with glue. It is fun to watch them with this foreign liquid. We played in the water and pumpkins. We finger painted on a mirror and made prints. We also looked inside a gooey pumpkin. This was great fun. We stamped our Fall Festival bag.

We also went to the festival where we picked apples, threw bean bags, rode a Hay ride and picked a spider off a spider web. In Chapel we talked about how a God takes a sinner like me and cleans us out. Just like we clean out a pumpkin.

I look forward to next week - we will continue to talk about fall and pumpkins.

Have a great Halloween!

With Love

Ms. Tracee

Newsletter 6

Hello Sweet Owls~

Another great week was had by all owls again this week. I enjoyed talking with some of you on Thursday night. I loved meeting some Dads. Your Owls were so proud to show you off.

In our classroom this week we talked about pumpkins. We caught pumpkin ping pong balls with nets while they floated in the sensory table. We colored with markers and crayons again. We painted pumpkins and put some glitter on them. It was so much fun. We read Five Little Pumpkins and played with my pumpkin puppets. We counted them and talked about the different shapes on the faces. We touched and explored the different kinds of pumpkins and gourds. We talked about bumpy, smooth, little, big, fat, skinny and then we rolled them down the slide. Just like the pumpkins in our story rolled out of sight.

We played with Ms. Betty's bean bags by throwing them up and down. We danced and played with the balls. We love this.

In chapel we read the story of Joseph's coat of many colors. We danced and got a stamp.

I look forward to next week. We will be having our fall festival. Parents are always welcome but I also realize you may only have 3 hours a week of freedom so please do as you wish.

Again it was great to see many of you on Thursday and hope you have a great weekend.

With Love

Ms Tracee Hoot Hoot!!!

Newsletter 5

Hoot Hoot!!

We had an Owleriffic week in our class.

First off- Thank you so much for the gift card to Target and the chocolates. I can't wait to go to Target. You are so kind and I feel so loved. You are much too generous. Thank you, Thank you.

We had so much fun at the Petting Zoo. We got to chase the baby pigs and pet the bunnies. We saw a Llama, Yak and Donkey. The goats and sheep were friendly and loved to eat the hay. Most of my friends loved it and I had few tears. In our room we discovered animals in the oatmeal and made a picture with zoo stamps. We talked about the colors and animals as we stamped. We built a farm out of the Lego's and played with the animals while mooing and oinking. It is great fun to knock it over. We read Google Farm and sang Old McDonald had a farm.

Outside we painted bunnies and pigs. We washed the animals in the water tables. We love to ride the bikes and push the lawnmowers.

In Chapel we played with the parachute and got a stamp.

I look forward to next week~ we will be talking about pumpkins, Halloween and Fall.

Please join us for Family Night on Thursday October 21. 6:30-7:30.

Have a wonderful weekend

With Love,

Ms Tracee

Newsletter 4

Good morning wonderful Owls~

We had another great week in the owl class. We talked about spiders. We found spiders in the oatmeal. We enjoyed filling the oatmeal cans with spiders and oatmeal. We turned rice colors and played with scented play dough. Some of us wanted to eat it the play dough smelled so good. We made spider prints with spider rings and of course wrote with markers. We love this. We read The Itsy Bitsy Spider and sang it in a big loud voice, a itsy bitsy voice and a voice in the middle. I have a book where we place the big spider, big rain and big sun on the big water spout and the same for little and middle. We talked about all the words and then we sorted all the spiders, rain and sun. We love to sing and then we sang "I have a spider on my head" and other body parts.

Outside we painted, play on the play ground and Ms Pat had ice in the water tables and we used tongs to pick up the ice. This is great for motor skills.

We went to chapel and listened to the story of the 4 friends who lowered a friend into a house to see Jesus and he was healed by Jesus. We got to lower a friend in through a box house roof and say "Get up and walk"

This week we will be talking about the Farm and the petting zoo is coming. Yeah!!

Parents are always welcome. I just ask if you do want to come to remember the separation for the little guys can be hard. If it is late in the morning maybe consider just taking them home with you after the petting zoo. I will take lots of pictures.

Tuesday October 12 9:15-9:45

Wednesday October 13 10:15-10:45

Thursday October 14 11:15-11:45

With love,

Ms. Tracee