We have had a lovely and playful week here at Brooklyn Schoolhouse! Our days were filled with animal picnics inside, dance parties outside, and lots of laughter everywhere!
Our story this week was The Ghost in the Dobbs Diner by Robert Alley. This book is extra special because it takes place in Zoe’s hometown of Dobbs Ferry! This spooky silly tale certainly got us into the Halloween spirit, which we’re so excited to celebrate at the end of the month.
Continuing with our Halloween theme, our music teacher Tony sang a variety of spooky silly songs with us on Tuesday this week. On Wednesday during Theater Adventures we received a letter from Calliope the Cat: Gary the Ghost stole all of the pumpkins for the Halloween party! After traveling to Halloween Town in our Magical Elevator, we discovered that Gary the Ghost only stole the pumpkins because he didn’t get invited to the party and felt sad. We helped him explain to Calliope that he’s actually a nice ghost, and so he was invited to the party and returned all of the pumpkins!
We ended our week at Brooklyn Schoolhouse with our fall clothing swap! This was a wonderful time for children to swap clothes with each other that they no longer wear — what a lovely way to foster community within our school! We practiced swapping clothes by gluing clothes onto paper dolls with everyone’s faces on them.
Finally, we celebrated Lou’s third birthday this week! Thank you Zoe and Paul for bringing in cupcakes and reading us two books.
We hope you all have an amazing weekend, and enjoy any new clothes you got from our Clothing Swap. School will be closed on Monday 10/20 for Diwali- we’ll see you Tuesday 10/21!
Sincerely,
Your Brooklyn Schoolhouse Teachers
