You'll watch a Pumpkin ripen and decompose before your very eyes! This happened in our Windsor Garden.
Table mates are shop keepers who decide what will be for sale at their table. This week we added items related to Fall and Halloween, and the children labeled their bins Items included: bats, scorpions, bumpy gourds, corn, squash, gift bags, and more. Students are using their jolly phonics to sound out these words. The shopping was brisk this week! Our Poem this week is "Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate". It is a great launch to ordinal numbers: first, second, third, fourth and fifth. We will practice those numbers in the poem and as we line up.
How much does a pumpkin weigh? We'll be making estimates about a pumpkin's weight, but FIRST we'll need to weigh ourselves to have data to inform our guess. There will be more posted this week as we learn more interesting facts and wonderful adjectives to describe our pumpkins. We dipped our toes into Pumpkin study AND learned some great safety tips bout FIRE SAFETY. It's important to have a plan.
(We practice our plan at school with our fire drill) When you hear a fire alarm at home or school: 1 -- Walk, don't run. 2 -- Know 2 ways to get out of the building. 3 -- Meet at a planned safe place. SEESAW - is a wonderful online portfolio to record and share your child's work and conversations at school. The children are beginning to learn how to use the app. This week they posted a picture of a scarecrow puzzle and talked about the animals they drew to be friends with the lonely scarecrow. You will be able to view and comment on your child's work from your home devices! I will share the parent access with you at conference time after we have a few posts. The SEESAW app allows you to see first hand the growth your child is making! We're talking about Autumn or Fall this week. Our yoga story had Arnold the Ant becoming an astronaut in an apple. We are looking at leaves and food for the animals that live outside. Later this week we'll bring home our mini-book about colors and leaves. Let us read it to you many times!
We had such fun enjoying Apple Week!
Our Poem of the week was Apples, Apples. and by the end of the week each child was able to circle the word "apples" when it came up in the poem. On Tuesday we learned about John Chapman and his contributions to America. He was a man who loved nature and walked across the country planting apple trees. John Chapman, nicknamed, Johnny Appleseed, was born on September 26 in the 1700's, so we celebrated his birthday by making hats that looked like cooking pots. Johnny Apples was known for wearing his cooking pot on his head. We made a class graph showing our favorite color of apple. We also invited our buddy class and principal, Mrs. Fabrizio to tell us their favorite way to eat apples: apples sauce, apple pie, apples, dried apples, caramel apples, or apple juice. The big winner was caramel apples with 7 votes! |
AuthorAmy Welzenbach, Archives
October 2020
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