Ask me to tell you about friday, October 30th, 2020

We had a great time listening to Halloween stories during our Story Hour today.  It was fun to just get to listen, and I think some of the children did some drawing too.  We listened to Turkey Trick or Treat by Wendy Silvano,
The Very Brave Witch by Allison McGhee, Pig and Pug Trick or Treat by Sue Lowell Gallion, Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman, It's Raining Bats and Frogs by Rebecca Colby, The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan and Jan Berenstain, Hallo-weener by Dav Pilkey, and the Witch's Cat and the Cooking Catastrophe by Kristie Watson.  Ask me to tell you my favorite story!
During our afternoon class we read The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams.  We listened to the story and identified the key events.  We then found pieces of clothing that went with the story, and a doll to use as the little old lady, and practiced retelling the story using my words.  I modeled this and we used the book to go through the story.  It's a long story but fun to retell!  The clothes all make a movement and a sound that are part of the retelling.  Then, the children went to break out rooms to practice retelling the story.  Ask me to retell The LIttle Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything!  Then, remind me to put away the clothes I used!
We practiced listening and writing.  I said a Halloween sentence and the children wrote it.  The sentences had some "red words" that we have been learning in Orton Gillingham, and some words they needed to tap out to hear the sounds and write the letters that go with the sounds.  We also were working on using spaces between words, a capital letter to start the sentence, and puctuation at the end of the sentence.

I hope you have a great Halloween and weekend!
​Miss Wolfe