This has been a busy week in 3B! The children are getting very excited as Halloween approaches! Of course, they are excited for costumes, candy and trick-or-treating with their families, and we are hoping that they continue to get excited for our upcoming celebration as a class too. Next week we will begin the process of decorating and making our costumes. While there will be a general theme to all of our costumes, each child will, of course, get to make their costume their own as they create it in their own special way. This year, the 3B class is going to be Creepy Carrots for the Halloween Parade. We voted on this idea as class because we love reading books so much! Creepy Carrots won the vote over two of our other favorite books; Rex Wrecks It and Color Monster. This is going to be so fun! (Please remember to send in an extra adult, size small, white or orange t-shirt by Monday. We will begin working on the costumes next week. Thank you!)
In addition to figuring out our Halloween costumes, 3B is so excited to have started signing in on their very own! After most of the group has done it twice, it is already very evident that the students in 3B are very proud of their new ability to trace their name letters. Many of them take a moment to celebrate when they have completed tracing the last letter of their name. Also, many friends are interested enough to closely watch as their friends sign in. As much as the class loves books and words, it is unsurprising to see how much they are enjoying signing in, though it still very exciting for all of us. We look forward to watching the development of letter recognition, fine motor skills, and increasing pride as the group gets more and more familiar with signing in.
We are again putting our scientist hats on, too! Now that we are settling into the schoolyear and a month has passed, the class is becoming used to feeding the worms and helping with composting. Many of them are eager to participate in the blending of organic food scraps and mixing in strips of newspaper for the worms to eat. Many of the friends are even eager to handle the worms, often exclaiming how squishy and slippery they are, how fast or slow they move, and how much they tickle their hands. This week, as we prepared to feed the worms, we took some time to notice various aspects of the newspaper that we were putting in the compost bin for the worms. We commonly observe the food scraps we use, though this was the first time we noticed the newspaper itself. The various aspects we noticed included smell, texture, color, and sound when crumpled or rubbed together. Next week we will continue to explore the newspaper we put in this week and see if what we noticed today will still be true next week.
