Oct 31 2011
pictures of our Pumpkin fun!
Makayla feeling the ooziness of the pumpkin "guts".
Mekhi getting his hands messy during the pumpkin seed excavation!
Archive for October, 2011
Oct 31 2011
Pumpkin Seeds- Yum!
- Angela tries the pumpkin seeds. Does she like them?
Fall is such an exciting time, with the arrival of changing and falling leaves, pumpkins, and Halloween! Today, our class celebrated the fall season by doing a pumpkin investigation by estimating a pumpkin’s height, weight, and seed count, and then testing our estimations. We discovered that our large pumpkin was exactly 12 inches tall, weighed 14 pounds, and had over 500 seeds inside! WOW! We couldn’t believe all of those seeds came from inside just one pumpkin! It took a long time for us to count, but we did it! And what does one class do with all of those 500 seeds, you may ask! Roast them, of course! We enjoyed our roasted seeds with a little salt at the end of the day. Most of the kids seemed to really enjoy them and said they tasted like popcorn. I never realized it before, but they do kind of taste like popcorn! To top the day off, we carved two pumpkins in small groups and have them displayed outside our classroom to show to our friends. Zek came up with the wonderful idea of writing our names on the pumpkins so tomorrow we will be writing our names on the backs to show our class unity.
Oct 31 2011
Pumpkins!
We were very busy in Math Workshop today! In honor of Halloween we used pumpkins to help us in math. We estimated the height and weight of the class pumpkin. After that we took the actual measurements and talked about the differences. After that the kids had the chance to get their hands in the goop! It was so funny to see their reactions! The kids were divided into small groups and had to count their pumpkin seeds. The kids ended up sorting them into groups of ten and then they were able to count quickly!
Oct 31 2011
Pumpkin fun!
Today, we did all things pumpkin…did pumpkin math by estimating how heavy our pumpkin is, estimating how tall our pumpkin was, and estimating how many seeds we had in the pumpkin. Throughout the day we accomplished each tas except for talking about how many seeds we have so tomorrow we will send our papers home with how many seeds we had in our pumpkin. The children LOVED pulling the seeds out of the pumpkin and getting their hands dirty.
It was a fun day today! Have a fun night tonight!
I will add pictures tonight from our day today!
Oct 28 2011
Invitations and Jobs!
So, today I hope that your kiddo gave you their invitation to our “Family Night Puppet Shows.” It is going to be Thursday, November 17th starting at 6pm. We had a discussion that a night performance would be a more exciting time for our shows because it is not a normal time we are at school, and we think more families could come if we had it at night. We wrote down the date, time, where it was going to be, and who was presenting the shows as a group. Then, the children wrote and decorated their own invitations. I was going to keep them over the weekend, but everyone was so excited to give them to you all so I hope you enjoyed receiving them.
I totally forgot to tell you all that on Monday we started doing jobs in our classroom. We have an electrician (in charge of turning off the lights), a lumberjack (pencil sharpener), horticulturist (plant waterer), mail helper, folder/backpack manager, librarian, custodian, hand sanitizer distributor, and concessions worker. It was so fun to see the children so engaged and excited to do their job. One week your child will have a job, and then the next week they will not have a job. That way we can make sure that each person gets some special job times every other week.
The way we are displaying jobs in our room!
Our friends working on writing their invitations!
Saa's invitation where he added some puppets on the bottom...so clever!
