Hello Spoede Pre-K Families,
We've had fun transitioning into fall in our Spoede Pre-K room! Our dramatic play area has dress up, spooky stuffed bats to play house with, and a pumpkin ring toss game. The sensory table is full of pasta, pretend spiders, eye balls, and bats. The easel has fall and Halloween words to spell with magnetic letters.
Monday - No School. Fall Break! Hope everyone enjoyed their long four day weekend!
Tuesday - We learned about the holiday Diwali: Festival of Lights. We used oil pastels to color a Rangoli, which is a traditional Indian folk art design.
*We reviewed the letter Hh (Big line down, small line across, Big line Down) and introduced the letter Ii (Big line down, small line across the top, small line across the bottom). We completed both letters in our Handwriting Without tears Workbooks.
*We also learned the Poem: Five Little Pumpkin in shared reading. Shared reading of a poem is an interactive, whole-group literacy strategy where the teacher and students read an enlarged poem together. Teacher models fluency reading, expression, and pacing while pointing to each word to demonstrate one -to-one correspondence between spoken and written word. The students can revisit the poem throughout the day on their own.
*We also completed a Pumpkin Name Cutting Activity where we cut our names apart and glued them back together in order on a piece of black paper.
In Music with Ms. Li., we sang some Halloween songs and used scarves to make ghosts floating though the air. Lots of fun movement and great singing.
Wednesday- We started our day with circle time and read the story All Are Welcome. We revisited how to welcome a new friend into our classroom which we learned about in a Second Steps Lesson earlier in the year. We discussed how to make others feel welcome and how to help everyone feel like they belonged in our Spoede Pre-K Classroom Family. We reminded the students that being a good friend and helper takes practice every day. We spoke about noticing and reporting to a teacher if someone isn't being treated with kindness or respect. We watched a LECC Pledge Day Video and previewed the Pledge we would recite Thursday on Pledge Day.
*During centers, we used water colors to paint a wash over our Diwali picture of light.
*We painted Halloween Candy Corn pictures using pompoms with clothes pins holding the pompom in place to help strengthen our pincer grip.
Thursday- We All Belong Pledge Day: We started out by watching the LECC Pledge Day Video again. We listened to the We All Belong Song, danced to a video entitled, We Are All In This Together and read another online book called "We All Belong." Finally, recited the We All Belong Pledge together as a class and we discussed what each line meant.
Attached are the links to the activities we participated in for Pledge Day!
Another Book (WE All Belong by Alex Goss)
Dance Video (We Are All In This Together
*We made spider webs using oil pastels to trace the webbing and water colors to fill paint in the background. Next week we will make handprint spiders to cut out and sit on the spiderwebs to complete the project.
*We made cool Q-Tip Skeletons and traced pumpkin shapes to use in a graphing activity next week.
Friday- In art with Ms. Tara, we made Jack-O- Lanterns with a painted pumpkin and pre-cut shapes. We also drew lines on our pumpkins before adding the face, leaves, and stem. The students are continuing to grow each week with their ability to follow multi-step directions.
*We cut out our candy corn art work and finished adding water coloring on our spider webs.
Upcoming Dates to Remember:
Red Ribbon Week (Oct. 27-31) Spirit Days
10/27 Dream Healthy Choices: Pajama Day10/28 Team Up Against Bad Choices: Jersey Day10/29 Give Bad Chices a Boot: Western Day10/30 Hats off for Being a Role Model: Hat Day10/31 Say Boo To Bad Choices: Halloween Costumes
10/28 Picture Retake Day
Spoede Elementary School Absentee & Retake Picture Day
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Wagner Portrait Group will be at school to photograph any students who were absent on the original Picture Day.
FOR ABSENTEE STUDENTS WHO NEED TO ORDER:
Pre-Order Online: www.WagnerPortraitGroup.com
Pre-Order Password: 6A5R4Y6Y
Direct Order Link:
https://wagner.portraitpics.co
Retake photos will also be available upon request. If your student is having a retake, please return the entire portrait package (including the insert sheet) to the photographer on retake day. Feel free to attach a note describing what you’d like done differently.
10/31 - Halloween Party and Costume Parade
The Spoede Halloween Parade and Class Parties will be held on Friday, October 31. Before delving into the details, here's the general timeline for the afternoon:
1:45pm - Families allowed in the school building to begin preparing classrooms and/or to make their way around to the back of the school to find a spot to observe the parade (which will be outdoors, weather-permitting). All visitors will be required to sign-in before proceeding to their child(ren)’s classroom(s).
2:00pm - Student Parade Begins
2:15-3:15pm - Halloween Parties in Classrooms
- No weapons are allowed. School-appropriate masks may be worn during the parade, but not during any other portion of the school day.
- The costume should be something that is comfortable and could be worn over school clothing.
- Please do not send make-up or hair spray to be put on at school.
Other Notes: Please do not send any food (including that wonderful Halloween candy 
) in to school.
) in to school.Students may leave with their families at the conclusion of their class party, but any student leaving early MUST be signed out.
Families are welcome to park in the inner parking lot, the parallel spaces in the outer ring surrounding the inner lot, and any open spaces in the bus dropoff circle.
*** 11/4 No School For Students: Teacher Prof. Dev. Day***
Teachers will be in professional development learning activities all day.
11/11 Spoede's Veterans Day Parade
Spoede's Veterans Day Celebration
We are excited to celebrate those that have served or are currently serving our country. Please extend the invite below to any military individuals you may know, so we can honor them on Veterans Day. Please make sure to RSVP on the link below and note the plans on the invite:
Time: Arrive by 1:45 at Venable Park.
*Meet Spoded Staff memeber at Park.
*Follow Parede to Spoede.
Click RSVP to sign up your Veteran/Active Duty Special Guest RSVP For Veterans Day Parade
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Enjoy this weeks pictures!
Learning the Letter of the Week: H and I
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Workingin our Handwriting Without Tears Workbooks on the Letter H and I
Working with Oil Pastels to color our Diwali Festival of light artwork
Recess
Pumpkin Name Puzzles
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Center Free Choice
Music and movement with Ms. Li. Fall and Halloween themed songs.
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Practicing our Five Little Pumpkins Poem at Circle time
Lunch Recess on a Beautiful Day!
At Circle Time:Dancing on "We All Belong Pledge Day" with the song "We're all in this Together.
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Morning Recess
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Lunch Fun: Make your own Pizza Day.
Painting Spider Webs with Water Colors
Sensory table fun: Playing with Spider Web
Making Q-Tip Skeletons
The Caped Crusaders: Pre-K Super Heros/ Heggerty Heros
Coloring in our Art Journals
