November Update

If you were to pass by the Yellow Caterpillar classroom these days, you would hear the children humming “L’automne est arrivé!” (Fall is here). As the season has arrived, we are learning fall and Halloween vocabulary in Language and Art, and soon we will be talking about Remembrance Day. We had fun visiting Miller’s Farm and picking out pumpkins. In class we cut up the gourds and pumpkins and the children had a tactile experience learning what the insides are made from! We also had fun picking fall leaves and replicating them with pastels in Art class. Along with that, we are learning elements of design: colour, line and texture. 

In Math we continue to do sorting and classification, as well number sense, counting from one to twenty, forwards and backwards, and skip counting by two for their better understanding.

The children are very excited to build a bakery in the Dramatic Arts area- they also look very cute in their chef’s hats. When we were brainstorming ideas about what we would need in the bakery, the kids surprised me with their vast knowledge of all things cooking and left me with the impression that they must be helping out in their kitchens at home! 

For Halloween the classroom was decorated with pumpkins, owls and monsters. In Gym, the children had fun trying to balance mini gourds on their heads.

And throwing and catching ‘ghost balloons’ in the air with their scoops.

We had so much fun during the Halloween dance-o-thon, wearing our costumes and dancing up a storm! And we ended the day with a costume parade.

We will continue to learn more things about the seasonal changes as winter is soon approaching. With that in mind, I would like to remind parents to dress the children warmly according to the colder weather.

Till we meet again!

Mrs. Singh