What an adventure filled week! There were more wildlife discoveries this week–frogs, another toad, snails, a newt, and we FINALLY saw a crayfish (also known as a crawfish or crawdad).

We are continuing to practice classroom routines and learn each other’s names. This week PreK class has really enjoyed exploring the creek together, building animal habitats in the block area and playing pretend games on the playground.

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We started observing snails and slugs more closely. We learned that snails breathe through a hole near their shells and slugs have a hole on their right side. This means that snails and slugs have lungs like us! We looked very closely at a slug near the creek and saw the breathing hole. We began noticing where we have been finding snails and slugs; in the woods, on plants, in damp places, etc. We have begun to create a habitat for them in our classroom with damp moss, soil and branches!

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We read The Apple Doll by Elisa Kleven. The children were excited because they realized that we have a big apple tree on the playground. We ran outside and picked out some apples to make our own apple dolls. We plan to peel and prepare them next week.

On Friday we celebrated Rosh Hashanah with Maximus and Ms. Provenz (Maximus’ mom). We wished each other a “sweet New Year” and ate challah and apples dipped in honey. We also had our first Pizza Friday!

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Remember that Monday is Back-to-School night and that there is no school on Wednesday.

If anyone has extra shoe boxes lay around, PreK would love to use them for a project.

Vicky

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