Week 11: 50th Day & Pumpkins

We celebrated the 50th day of school with costumes, 

bubblegum blowing, and root beer floats!

We were all able to lift our pumpkin!

We also estimated the circumference and 

examined the rind, pulp, and seeds.

We measured ourselves against the "pumpkin" plates, 

then measured the length of our animals with unifix cubes.

Our stamina for Read To Self is now 13 minutes!

The window glass and sunlight cast a gorgeous rainbow
around a corner of our room.
We dropped everything to look, question, discuss, document!

Weeks 9 & 10: Bats & Spiders

We added words to our book about nocturnal animals.

We know the beginning sounds of words.

We wrote a mission statement!

We made mini smores and ate them around our 'campfire'.

marshmallows/chocolate bars/teddy grahams

We choose quiet spots to read together.

We match numerals with ten frame cards.

We created owl booklets during Writer's Workshop.

Mrs. Platts squealed with delight when she found this spider.
It's alive!

We added sets of numbers in the spider webs.

We stretched the sounds to form words.

We have spider schema!

Week 8: Nocturnal Animals & Field Trip Pics

We read together.

We "Write The Room":  we searched for nocturnal animals!

We measured bats with nonstandard tools.

We used our writing journals and learned to draw a bat!

We strengthened our fine motor skills by crafting owls.

We listened to worship music during Art... and we sang!

We painted leaves with watercolors.

We took our first field trip to a pumpkin farm.

Some of us flew on the zip line!

Some of us shot potatoes at scarecrows!

We toured the farm on a hay wagon.

We enjoyed the carpool ride!

We earned a class reward--dress up day!
Pictured:  Peter Parker, Spiderman, Superman, a fierce creature, a Cardinals player

Weeks 6 & 7: Apples & Fall

~Apples~

Applesauce Ingredients:
9 apples, 1/2 cup sugar, 1t cinnamon, 1 cup water

Cook on high for 3 hours, then on low for 2 hours.

DELICIOUS

We identified the Fall season.

We wrote a list of Fall words.

Our eye-hand coordination skills are improving!

We created words with playdo.

We made scarecrow puppets.

We made text-to-text connections with
Fletcher And The Falling Leaves &
Leaf Trouble.

Mr. M. appeared in pirate gear, bearing ice cream treasures!

We used the experience in Writer's Workshop.

Mrs. Platts scored at the Carson-Dellosa sale:
new puzzles!