Happy Halloween
October
Class Activities
Language
Arts 
Fire Safety
**Safety Rules** 
Fall
**Weather, trees, leaves, pumpkins and scarecrows**
Spiders
Some books
we read this month are...... 
Monster
Sandwich, If You Meet a Dragon and In the Dark, Dark Woods ......all by Joy
Cowley 
Letters/Sounds
we focus on this month.....
Ff
Tt
Pp Ss
Mathematics
Numbers 0
- 10 **making sets and identifyiing the numerals (out of order)**
Extended Patterns
using different colors, sizes and shapes (yellow pumpkin, orange pumpkin,
orange pumpkin, yellow pumpkin, orange pumpkin, orange pumpkin.....)
Review Shapes
**circle, triangle, rectangle and square**
Writing
Activities 
This month
we will focus on the proper formation of both capital and lower-case letters
using lined paper.
In addition,
during our journal time, your child will be encouraged to illustrate and use
"invented" spelling (sounding out how you think a word is
spelled) about a pre-selected topic. How about making up a special
journal at home? It could be a wonderful keepsake to keep for years to come!
Check out
these pumpkin recipes....let me know how they taste!!!
A
jack-o-lantern sandwich 
You will
need: a pumpkin cookie cutter, 1 small tub of cream cheese, orange food
coloring, 1 slice of bread, candy corn, raisins and
cheerios.
Cut out the
bread into a pumpkin shape, add orange food coloring to the cream cheese and
spread on the "pumpkin". Now, add the candy corn for the eyes, a
raisin for the nose and about 5 cheerios for the happy grin! Enjoy!
Yummy
Pumpkin Seeds
Mix cleaned and dried
pumpkin seeds with a small amount of oil and seasoning salt. Bake spread out on
cookie sheets at 325 for 20 minutes. Yum!
Toxic Waste Punch
INGREDIENTS
1/2 gallon of rainbow (mixed flavors)
sherbert
2 2-liter bottles of 7-Up or Ginger Ale
1 pkg. green Kool-Aid
DIRECTIONS
Put the sherbert in a 2-3 gallon bowl. Sprinkle the Kool-Aid across the top.
Slowly pour the soda around the sides of the sherbert. The soda will lift the
Kool-Aid leaving delightful color streaks and sour flavors.
HAVE FUN!
Recipes
for Crafts
to have fun with!
(YUCK,
NOT TO BE EATEN)
Slimey
Glob! 
1/2 cup of Borax
2 quarts + 1-1/2 cups of water
2 cups of white glue
food coloring (Choose ONE color)
Lysol (the Lysol stops spoiling)
plastic bags for storage (Zip Lock is best)
Directions:
1. Mix together 1/2 cup of Borax with 2 quarts of water. Allow the mixture to
settle and then use only the clear liquid. Set aside.
2. Mix 2 cups of white glue (Elmer's is best) with 1-1/2 cups of water. Add food
coloring (just a few drops) if you would like the GLOB to have color. Add a few
drops of Lysol (this prevents spoilage). 3. Add the clear liquid in #1 with the
mixture in #2. Knead the mixture together with your hands into your SILLY GLOB.
4. Store in plastic bag (zip lock type is best).
Bubble
Brew! 
1 cup liquid dishwashing
detergent
2 cups of warm water (not too hot!)
3-4 tablespoons of GLYCERINE (you can find this at drugstores)
1 teaspooon sugar
food coloring (you choose your favorite color!)
a bottle for storage
Directions:
1. Mix together gently all the ingredients in a big container.
2. Use a container with a tight fitting lid or cap for storage.
Note: You can use almost anything to blow bubbles: pipe cleaners shaped into a
circle at one end, plastic six-pack beverage holders, paper cups, plastic coat
hangers, straws, and funnels.
The secret question
is: What are your three favorite "D" words?
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