TRICKS AND TREATS!!

Dear Families and Friends,

Good evening!!

The past couple of days have brought, with them, great anticipation of and enthusiasm for the fun to be had in October -- we have been talking about and preparing for fieldtrips and trick-or-treating!!

Both Kelly and Liz have been teaching the children about the season via apple-themed songs, games and exploration.

Wednesday, the kids looked at apples from the outside to the inside, marveling at the patterns of "stars" in their middles, counted and began rooting the seeds and engaged in stamping and printing with the halved and quartered fruits -- they have eaten them, as well, and do plan to make applesauce and/or pie, in the near future!!

As a result, our Butterflies and Puppies have explored apples from scientific, mathematical and artistic perspectives.

We finished decorating our "Halloween Tree", which you may already have noticed, as it is covered with even more orange, black and white crepe paper, cobwebs and large rubber bugs -- yuck!! :) !!

We have almost completed our Jack-O-Lanterns, which will be displayed on a bulletin board, in the main classroom, and have read a wide variety of October-inspired stories, such as "Black Cat Creeping", "Goodnight Goon", (a spooky take on the original, by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd), "Pumpkin Cat" and "Vunce Upon a Time", (a very entertaining tale of Dagmar, a young vampire, who is a vegetarian, eats candy and is as scared of humans as they are of vampires)!!

Soon, Kelly will finish "The Royal Family", with our little ones, so that it may be available to peruse.

We all have been thoroughly enjoying music and movement and newly-devised activities, including the use of a calendar, during separate circles and meetings, and, today, made perfectly-colored pumpkin-spice play-dough, shaped into pumpkins, bats, ghosts, witches and more, as well as, immersed very sappy pine-cones in tubs of water, to discover, later on, that the "petals" closed!!

Lots of outdoor play has exposed us to sun, rain, wind and a myriad of fall colors -- it is wonderful to have real yardspace.

The CDC has had many visitors, lately, including Amy, our friends from LABB and, today, some seniors from Lexington High School.

With Tammy in California, for a few days, Nyah, with the assistance of Kirsten, has taken on the responsibility of narrating "Caps for Sale", just before rest time -- thank you, girls!!

Do have a wonderful night, all, and we look very forward to seeing you in the morning!!

Love Miss Peacock XOXO :) :)