Letter "H", Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate, Monsters, Patterns, and More!

It's been a spook-tacular week of learning!

Our fabulous Halloween door!
As it says, "OUR CLASS IS A-DOOR-ABLE!"

We built structures with Velcro blocks.

"I made a house!"

We've been reading the book "Five Little
Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate". We're creating
a scene from the book and we started
by making a gate.

We talked about how some of the gate pieces
are horizontal and some are vertical.

We created the letter "H" out of
Handwriting Without Tears wood pieces.

We love the Go Noodle guys!
They teach us really cool handshakes!

We worked with number toys. They
transform into robots.

We talked about how the vertical pieces go
from the the top to the bottom and the horizontal
pieces go from side to side.

Every morning we work on our journals. This
week we're working on writing and drawing
things that start with the letter "H".

We dipped a jack-o-lantern shape sponge into
orange paint and stamped it five times to create
"Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate".

We created monsters. The first step was to choose
what colors of paint we wanted. The next step was
to fold the paper in half and then tap it all over to
spread the paint evenly on both sides of the paper.

When we opened the paper we saw that we'd
created the beginnings of a symmetrical monster face. 

Look how great they turned out!

We built structures with the waffle blocks.

We added features to our monsters.
We made sure that the features were symmetrical.

We have SO MUCH FUN at the Manipulatives table.
We've been scooping food for animals and working
with numbers that transform into robots.

We were careful to place the eyes, ears, teeth
and hair on our monsters symmetrically.

We created patterns.

Our awesome symmetrical monsters!

One of our favorite jobs is being the song helper.

We love the "Orange" song!