Halloween

One of my favorite St. James activities is the Pumpkin Patch with middle school. How neat is it for our children to see how pumpkins are grown (planted and taken care of by middle school), then have a special book written and illustrated just for them by our very own middle school students. It is then read to them after they pick a pumpkin out of the patch! The middle schoolers work so hard to create a fun and memorable experience for our little people in PreK, and I think they did an outstanding job!

Torn Paper MONSTERS

We made terrifying torn paper Monsters to help go along with our focus letter M. I made one myself and had it out for an example and each child tried to recreate it with their own unique style. I think they turned out so cute, I mean terrifying! :) Plus, it helped us work on our grip and rip.

Count and Graph

Counting helps children develop their cognitive skills, including memory attention, and spacial awareness. As they count objects, they have to remember the numbers they have already counted, pay attention to the objects they are counting, and spatially arranged objects to count them accurately. This week children had to count and graph spiders, bats, and witches hats by touching and counting each individual picture. Then they had to remember that number and color in that same amount of boxes next to the picture.