Learning Station - Ghost Bean Count - And Scooping

The kiddos showed off their counting skills this morning.  This is a preschool favorite!

For the younger kiddos I set out bowls and containers to scoop and fill.  Actually, the older kiddos greatly enjoyed this activity as well.

Gg Week

It's going to be a great letter Gg week!

Gg Clothing - This kiddo was excited.  He had "Go!". gray and gold!  We also found a ghost pumpkin on our porch!

 

Gray and green stripes and glowing shoes!

 

Gems and Geodes - We chatted about geodes and then watched a few videos of geodes being cracked open.  Then we made some gems of our own!  (rock salt and glue).

They were a gooey, gunky mess.  But fun.  I think they'll turn out pretty cool.  They are going to dry for a few days.

I saw this idea on this blog:  Here!

Gems - Wahoo!  Our gems are all dry and ready to send home.  They turned out fabulous!

 

Games - I love it when kiddos enjoy playing games!  This school year, it looks like I have several kiddos who enjoy, wahoo!



Ghostly Night - Youngsters - The kiddos created a ghostly scene of their own making.

 

Journal Time - Gg - Googley Eyed Ghosts -

 

Ghost Decor - The kiddos wanted to use these ghost (a notepad from the Target $1 section) to decorate around the classroom ...

They stuck them everywhere!

 

The Ghost's Dinner - One of our favorite books!  These ghosts eat yummy food and turn colors!
 
The kiddos made their own ghost dinner and chose what their ghosts ate...

Snack - Ghost's Dinner - Then we decide to have our own ghost's dinner.  The kiddos did a great job trying things.

Spinach Juice (and other juices), pumpkin soup, salmon, salad, cheese, hot cocoa and milk.

And the special ghost dessert recipe - (green pudding fluff with marshmallows).

 

Stop and GO!! - Youngsters - The kiddos made their own signs, then we played the game (basically red light green light).  They really enjoyed this game, I think I should make a sign for the preschool so we can play it again.

 

Gum - Bubble Blowing - Ok, so we weren't too great at actually blowing bubbles with our gum.  But our art project is Great at it!

 

 

Gum Bubbles - Ok, so they're just balloons...  

Learning Station - Ghost Names - Youngsters

The kiddos flew their ghost to their ghosty name grouping, then flew back with 1 of their lettered ghost.  They kept doing that until they had retrieved all the letters of their name.  Then we put them together, removed the tape and put them in their envelope to go home.

 

Learning Station - Ghost Counting

This is a class favorite.  I just draw ghost faces on large lima beans.  The kiddos usually want to take some home, so I end up making some more each year.

The kiddos identified the number, then counted out that many ghosts.  

Week 1 of Halloween Fun!

Welcome to week 1 of Halloween fun!  We'll review our letters and enjoy some spooky fun.

Outside - The kiddos discovered the spooky eyes on the house and the ghosts in the trees and the spider webs.

 

Circle Time - Ghost Story - The momma ghost goes grocery shopping, but before she leaves she warns her kiddo ghosts not to eat anything that's not white.  Of course they do, and they turn colors.  When momma ghost returns, she has to give her kiddos something white to eat to fix them.  The kiddos came up with all sorts of crazy things to eat.  We told the story over and over again.






Circle Time - Halloween Feely Bag 1 - 

Cheese Cloth Ghosts - Day 1 - Today the kiddos soaked their cloth in liquid starch, then arranged it over their balloon.  Now they are drying.

Day 2 - We added faces today.  They turned out pretty cute, although I think we should have done a couple layers of the cloth to make them stronger.  

Napkin Ghosts - I love these traditional ghosts! The kiddos flew their ghosts around the preschool. 

Snack - Ghost Bananas - Oooo...  Mini chocolate chips.

Zip Line Ghosts - We took our napkin ghosts, put a paper clip on them and zipped them down our line.  Great fun!

Dress Up - Halloween - The kiddos were excited to find witch hats and a cauldron in the dress up box.

Monster House - Now it has a mouth!

Circle Time - Continuing our Halloween "study" we learned about spiders today.  We talked about their anatomy:  2 body parts, 8 legs, 1 to 8 eyes, feel vibrations and taste with their feet, two basic kinds of spiders: web builders and hunters ...

  
Science - Spider Dinner - We talked about how and what spiders eat.  Web building spiders wait for dinner to land on their web, they feel the vibrations with their feet, zip out and wrap them up and bite them with poison.  Their poison immobilized them and turns their innards to soup.  When the spider is ready to eat, they simply suck up their dinner.  Slurp.  The kiddos tried their hand had wrapping up dinner.... 

 Nice wrapping...

Spider Web - Craft Sticks - Next we tried building a web.  Since we aren't as gifted as spiders, we used sticks to help get the shape of our web.We even had some flies to catch in our webs.

Milk Jug Lid Spiders - Ok, these perhaps look more like aliens then spiders, but they were fun to make and they sat well on our spider webs.

Web Rescue - While we were eating snack, a spider caught a few of our stuffed animals in it's web.  We had to go to the rescue, but we needed to be careful.  We didn't want to touch any of the web (yarn) or the spider would feel our vibrations and get us too!

  

After a few rescues, the kiddos decided to add the the webbed hallway.

The kiddos also grabbed a few more stuffed animals to wrap up and trap in the web.

 

Tp Bats - For the toddlers, I prepped the bats fully.

The preschoolers created their own wings...

Bat Wings - Made from a drawstring trash bag, so very fun.  They fly great outside!