October Curriculum Notes

This month, our Seeds will be exploring pumpkins! We will practice saying "pumpkin," will learn the sign language for pumpkin, talk about the color and texture of a pumpkin, and see if they are large or small pumpkins. 

Our new song will be “Where is Pumpkin”.  Our practical life skill will be putting on our jackets. Our special book this month will be “Brown bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Eric Carle and we will talk about Halloween costumes.

This month, our sprouts will be exploring leaves! They will talk about the colors of leaves, count leaves and watch the stages of a leaf to see how long it takes to get crunchy.  Our song will be “Five Little Pumpkins”. 




Our practical life activity will be raking and bagging leaves. We will be reading two fabulous fall books “The Stubborn Pumpkin” by Laura Geringer and “When the Leaf Blew In” by Steve Metzger. 

Miss Sam's Class

This month we will be studying North America focusing on where our food comes from.  We will be working on the song “Apples & Bananas” to warm up our vowel sounds for our language work.  In science we will be studying the animals of North America and learning the parts of the horse. Our practical life skill will be weaving.  A special book Miss Sam is sharing this month is Peace Rose.

Ms. Indima's Class

This month we will be studying North America. We will focus on Native American traditions.  Our new song for the month will be “Alice the Camel Has Five Humps” to warm up our math skills.  In our science curriculum we will discuss the parts of a volcano and talk about Mount St. Helens.  The new practical life skill is using a peg boards which helps develop the pincher grip muscles to assist in learning to write. Our book this month is “There Was an Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything”  

Ms. Reina's Class

This month we will be studying North America and talking about Native American cultures.  Our song this month is "Going Over the Sea" from Wee Sing.  In our science curriculum, we will be studying the parts of the fruit and our practical life skill will be apple slicing.  Our special book will be Arrow to the Sun: a Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald Mcdermote.  

The Garden

This month, we will be studying North America. We will be talking about many different aspects of Native American cultures including languages (with help from Grandma Midge), different forms of shelter, and traditional foods from all the different regions. Some of the many songs we are working on are American folk songs “The Fox," “Froggy Went a Courtin," and various Halloween songs. In our science curriculum we have been studying different forms of matter and doing density experiments and turning liquids into gas.  Our book this month is Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno.