Happy Halloween

Montessori celebrates Halloween in all areas of the classroom. It's fun--and it's learning:

          We have read lots of Halloween stories about pumpkins, bats, and witches.

          We have practiced our fine motor coordination hammering golf tees into a pumpkin.

We worked with pouring, pin punching, and tweezers to develop fine motor coordination and pencil grasp.

          We have created lots of spooky art--following directions and practicing sequencing.

    We have learned how to extend patterns and use symmetry to bead Halloween necklaces.

  We have created a jack-o-lantern, learning all the parts of a pumpkin--skin, meat, pulp, seeds, stem.

             We have counted pumpkins 1-10 and made double patterns with weaving.

We have learned about our bones by labeling a skeleton and making parts of books--skull, ribs, femur, patella, spine, clavicle, radius, tibia...

We have collected data about our costumes and created a bar graph. What a surprise to see everyone dressed up!

The Lunchers visited Homestead Farm.  They meet some farm animals, rode in a hay wagon, picked pumpkins and played in the straw. Afterwards, they wrote class books and journal stories about their adventures.

Trick-or Treating was fun, but don't forget candy for Mother Teresa's House of Peace!  We are planning to sort, count, and graph our candy collections before making gift bags. Getting candy is good--giving candy is even better!

      " Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace."
                                                                                                   Mother Teresa