OCTOBER

Week/Date: September 30-October 3
Theme/Letter: Fall/Autumn

Letter: B
Books/Songs: Let It Fall, The Scarecrow, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, Hedgehugs: Autumn Hide-and-Squeak
Crafts: Scarecrow craft, Fall Sweater, Pumpkin vine painting
Skills/Activities: Outdoor fall scavenger hunt, Scientific discovery-carving a pumpkin/pumpkin lifecycle/pumpkin anatomy, Who stole the pumpkin from the pumpkin patch? “Scarecrow, Scarecrow song”, Pumpkin play dough tray

Week/Date: October 7-9 (No School October 10th)
Theme/Letter: Fire Safety Week/Community Helpers

Letter: C
Books/Songs: Song-“Five Brave Firefighters” Pete the Cat: Firefighter Pete, The ABC’s of What I Can Be, Clothesline Clues to the Jobs People Do, Whose Hands Are These?
Crafts: Dalmatian fire helmet, Tissue paper fire art
Skills: Fire hydrant patterns, Fine motor-pom/pom pictures, puzzles, Community helper match, Community helper imaginative play
Parent Community Helper Visits

Week/Date: October 14-17
Theme/Letter: Leaves

Letter: D
Books/Songs: Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt, The Leaf Thief
Crafts: Leaf printing, Leaf sun catcher, Nature’s magic wands, Fox leaf
Skills: Acorn counting, Fall scavenger hunt, Fall gem sorting, Halloween lacing,
Fine motor: Button “trees”, Leaf find and seek
Story walk

Week/Date: October 22-24 (No School October 21 for Off-site Teacher In-service)
October 28-October 31
Theme/Letter: Halloween/Nocturnal Animals

Letter: E
Books/Songs: Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin-Picking Plan, Froggy’s Halloween, Room on the Broom, Stellaluna, I’m not Scary, A Halloween Scare in Pennsylvania, Song-Five Little Bats
Crafts: Spider web watercolor, Bat silhouette painting, Candy corn, Cat in pumpkin craft, Spider potato masher craft
Skills: Alphabet “brew”, Witch’s brew game, Build a spider play dough tray

Week of October 22-Preschool pumpkin patch, Spider stacking, Candy corn letters
October 29th –Halloween Parade/Trunk or Treat
October 30th -Humbug witch
October 31st -Classroom Halloween Party

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Classroom Needs/Upcoming Events:
-Please consider “visiting” our classroom during community helper week. We are looking for parent volunteers to come and talk with our class about your career and the “tools” you use for your job. If you plan on spending 10-15 minutes with our class, that would be great. We can work around your schedule. We can do any day/time during our usual class time. Thank you in advance.

-When you are outside, pick up some beautiful small, fall colored leaves. Please bring them in to use for our leaf sun catchers.

-October 7-9 and October 14-17- School pictures. Specific date TBA.
-November 4th - Preschool closed for Election Day!
-November 11th -Preschool closed for Veterans Day!
-November 13th -Fall Harvest festival (evening event)
-Preschool closed November 24-December 1st for Thanksgiving break

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