October 2025
Important Dates
- Thursday October 2, 2025: School is closed in observance of Yom Kippur
- Monday October 13, 2025: School is closed for Italian Heritage/Indigenous People Day
- Wednesday October 15, 2025: Picture Day
- Monday October 20, 2025: School is closed in observance of Diwali
- Friday October 24, 2025: PTA Pumpkin Patch
- Friday October 31, 2025: School-wide Costume Parade
Reminders
- Please check your child’s folder every day, and please return the folder to school the next day.
- Please remember to label all of your child’s belongings: write your child’s name on their jackets, water bottles, lunch boxes, lunch containers, etc.
Creative Curriculum
Instructional Study
This month we are finishing up the “First Six Weeks/Building our Classroom Community Study”. Later this month we will begin our next Creative Curriculum Study: Trees
Focus Questions
- Week #1: What are the parts of trees?
- Week #2: How do trees grow and change?
- Week #3: What grows and lives in trees?
- Week #4: What things are made from trees?
October Math Focus
Dear Pre-K Families,
This month our class is learning about Position and Direction and Sorting and Classifying.
Position and Direction: words to describe objects and where they are placed such as, front, back, top, bottom, open, and closed.
Sorting and Classifying: noticing what is the same and different about objects and putting them into groups.
Here are some fun activities that are easy to do at home to help reinforce these concepts:
- Read a story with your child and point out the parts of the book, for example, the front and back cover and the top and bottom of the page. Explain that you open the book to read it and close it when you are finished.
- Have children sort and classify when you are doing laundry by putting all the socks or all the shirts together.
Thank you for working with us. If you have any ideas that you would like to share, please let us know.
Family Fall Activities
Here are some family activities that you can do with your child:
Go on a leaf hunt:
- Talk about different color leaves
- Sort by color or size
- Count how many leave you found
- What sound do they make when you step on them?
Pumpkin Science:
Visit a pumpkin patch
- Cut open a pumpkin and count the number of seeds inside
- What does the inside look like, feel like, smell like?
- Take a neighborhood walk and find homes that have pumpkins displayed.
Fall Cooking:
- Explore different family recipes with your child.
- Go apple picking and have an apple taste test.
Resources:
Sincerely,
The Pre-K Teachers