HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION

Happy Halloween! Today was a BLAST! We hope your kids had as much fun as we did...but if not its their loss...J/K. In all seriousness it was such a fun day. I will make the writing on this post short and lots & lots and did I mention LOTS of pictures. I think we took about 200. I will post a couple of our favorites.
Aunt T(Fries) Paige(Buzz), Julie(Witch), and Brynley(Princess)
The Whole daycare family!

We started with Freeze dance and singing time

Treagan
Bradlee & Dillon
Austin
Tanner

We then carved out a pumpkin and saved the seeds so that can cook them later.

We paraded around the Neighborhood circle to show off the great costumes!
Liz & Heather
Dillon, Dallin, Liz, & Austin
Miss Julie and Riley(our cute devil)
Brynley - Our future Miss Utah!
Cayson
Rusty even joined the parade. Annie & Heather
Dallin

Brynley & KinnersTanner
Alyssa

Coloring pictures & making sucker ghosts
Noah
Brynley & Bradlee
Paige

Dallin, Austin & DillonThe little ones especially loved the coloring portion. Alyssa
Tanner
Cayson

Aunt T helped us make a delicious lunch in the pumpkin we cleaned out.
Miss Julie helped Riley make a delicious lunch in her bottle.


And this afternoon we frosted and ate pumpkin cookies for snack time.

So much packed into a few hours. Despite all the sugar,your kids should sleep great tonight! We hope that you have a safe and Happy Halloween.

Monday 10-25 Preschool

We had a blast singing our Halloween songs today.

5 Little Pumpkins
5 little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said "Oh my its getting late"
The second one said "There's witches in the air"
The third one said "But we don't care"
The forth one said "Lets run and run and run"
the fifth one said "I'm ready for some fun"
OOOOOOOO went the wind
and out went the lights
And 5 little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

I'm A Mean Old Witch
I'm a mean old witch with a hat...And I ride on my broom with my cat...

My chin is pointy and my shoes are too...You better watch our or I might get you! BOO!!!

Our little Caterpillars

Sadly, I have been slacking lately on the blog...I have been in a blog funk. That being said, I think that I would love to know what my child was doing and learning in preschool. So, here is to being better for the sake of the parents! I will try to update the blog every Friday.

With Halloween just around the corner we thought we better start learning our Halloween songs. We are learning: 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Fence, 3 Little Witches, and Mr. Jack-o-lantern. The kids all love music time and learning new songs, we will keep working on our Halloween music through the rest of the month.

The shape of the month is RECTANGLE! Please point out things to your child that are rectangular, and invite them to find rectangles as well. One fun rectangle we have been discussing is dollar bills. We use play money daily to practice counting and using numbers.
Alysia and Noah at singing time.
Riley...all the time.
Brynley intently counting her money.
Dillon
Miss Julie showing Austin how many dollars to count out.

We also learned about Caterpillars turning into beautiful butterflies. It starts out as a tiny egg. The Caterpillar cooks in the egg for 2 weeks.
This is how small a caterpillar egg really is.
Here is our interpretation of our leaf and all of our many tiny eggs.
After two weeks it hatches and turns into a beautiful caterpillar. Once it is a Caterpillar it eats and eats and eats leafs - of course. It gets fatter and fatter and then gets tired and it needs a nap.
Beautiful Caterpillar
Our leaf with all of our wiggling caterpillars.

So it wraps up in a tight cocoon. It sleeps for 3 weeks.

The cocoon
Brynley and Austin in their cocoon
Miss Julie in her cocoon
Dallin
Bradlee

After three weeks in the cocoon it decides it is ready to join the world again. It opens up as a beautiful butterfly!
I'm a beautiful butterfly. (every time I write or say this I think of the movie A Bugs Life when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly and says this. LOVE IT!)
Miss Julie's Beautiful butterfly wings
Bradlee's butterfly wings


Finally, we made our own caterpillars and put them into a cocoon and they turned into beautiful butterflies.
Austin making his Caterpillar

Dillon, Bradlee, and Dallin making caterpillars
Everyone's caterpillar in a cocoon...Love the home made Halloween towel cocoon???
Beautiful butterfly wings

Beautiful Butterflies!


Please remember to read the preschool board every preschool day, and keep up on the homework.
Next week we are learning about: Monday: Earthworms, Wednesday: Inchworm counting, Friday: HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION (come in costume for a day full of fun!)