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       Ms. Terry             Miss Sheila                                   WELCOME!

  Inclusion Teacher      Paraprofessional          

Week of 11/2/2026:

Hello Purple Room Families! 

My apologies for the delay in this posting, coming to you on Monday evening instead of morning!

The week of 11/2 brought us into our introduction to November. We revealed our new color and shape: Brown & Square! We sang the "BROWN Song" and raed the story by Cynthia Rylant called, "In November". We also updated our self portraits by drawing "ME in November". We included brown paint, and a brown things coloring sheet at our easel. Our hello song is "Good Morning/Afternoon Preschool Friends" and our goodbye song is "This is the Way We say Goodbye". This week we also learned a new Mindful Monday practice of deep breathing to help us find a way to calm ourselves any time we need! 

We had a four day week, missing Tuesday for Professional Development and voting day. The rest of our week was focused on the Life Cycle of the Pumpkin! We read an informational book about how a pumpkin grows, and then we planted the pumpkin seeds we scooped out of our pumpkins the week before! The children really did a great job naming and sequencing each step of the way from seed, to sprout, to vine, to the growing of the flowers. They know that when the flower falls off, a small green pumpkin grows, then finally the pumpkin grows big and turns to the color orange. We were all amazed by watching a time lapse video of the whole process. The children have been watering their plantings everyday using spray bottles. I will tell you, they are over the moon seeing the sprouts emerging this week already! Finally, the children colored and created their Life Cycle of a Pumpkin hat, adding the pictures for each step in order!

A learning activity the children enjoyed this week was rhyming pumpkins. Each pumpkin was cut in half, and each half had pictures of objects that rhyme.  The task was to match the two halves together to make the rhyme. 

Our afternoon class letter of the week was H. and the Eureka math lessons involved figuring out how objects can be counted accurately. Through several tasks, we ultimately realized that lining the objects up is the easiest way to count objects accurately. 

All students continued with our Heggerty lessons centered around listening to sounds, identifying what we hear, echoing words with the same beginning sound, or ending sound, rhyming words, as well as combining and separating compound words into parts.  Our morning students practiced matching and naming the letters of their name. Our afternoon students practiced Reading-Tracing-and Writing their name. Everyone enjoyed exploring sand writing, creating shapes in the sand and writing letters using letter cards for reference. Our sensory table was filled with water with various pouring tools and water toys. Our rug center featured foam letter and number puzzzles as well as a mega-blocks building set. 

The week of 11/9 will bring us the theme of Rhymes and Tales!

Thank you,

Ms. Terry & Miss Sheila 

In November, read aloud version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqlyqmN8XrM

From Seed to Pumpkin, read aloud version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjomQAAOhw

Time lapse video of a seed to pumpkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHaPDJCLCqM

Brown Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CNGo7OAM0o&list=RD0CNGo7OAM0o&start_radio=1

Move to the Beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrbGVGcXB5Q&list=RDhrbGVGcXB5Q&start_radio=1

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