Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere

These last two weeks of October have certainly been a lot of fun! Last week, the students rotated through six different math and literacy pumpkin exploration stations with the help of some great parent volunteers.

Here are just a few photos from our pumpkin exploration day.
(If you are a teacher reading this post, the pumpkin exploration notebook can be found here.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week, we started our day with a little Halloween themed writing and art. First, the students brainstormed a list of their favourite Halloween costumes and creatures. Next, we chose one of our favourite creatures and created a drawing. Finally, we used our knowledge of letter sounds and sticky notes to label our diagrams. I think we did an amazing job.

 

 

 

This afternoon, we continued our Halloween / pumpkin fun with a walking field trip to our local pumpkin patch. Our field trip included a hayride to the pumpkin patch, a visit to a scary haunted house and a hay maze. We even had some time to enjoy a hot dog and hot chocolate after our busy day.

 

 

 

 

Can you believe this is just the start of Halloween week? There will be more Halloween Math and Literacy activities to come.

 

Happy Halloween!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Fall Everybody!

Fall is officially here! I am sure you can tell by all the rain we have had the last week. Despite the gloomy weather, we have been having a ton of fun celebrating the change in season. Just last week, we partnered up with Mr. Mallinson's class, signed out our school iPADs and spent some time outdoors photographing some of the changes of the seasons.

 

We also completed some colourful artwork to display on our classroom walls.

 

 

This week , we changed our focus towards "APPLES". We created a diagram of an apple and labelled the parts. Next, we made some 3D apples showing the life cycle of an apple tree (these are currently hanging in our classroom). Lastly, we learned and sang some fun songs about apples. however, we are not finished our study just yet. Next week, we will be completing our study of apples with a fun "Apple Investigation Day"!

 

 

 

 

One of our favourite stories this week has been "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Theo LeSieg also known as Dr. Seuss.

 

 

We also found this cute song based on the story and have been listening and singing it throughout the day.

 

 

In the area of Math, the Kindergartens and Grade Ones we have been improving their patterning skills as well as their number recognition skills. The Grade Ones will be moving onto addition and subtraction next week, which I am sure they will find fun and challenging.

 

 

 

 

Don't forget! - The Grade Ones will have their first spelling quiz tomorrow and I am sure each and every one of them will do extremely well.

 

See you all tomorrow!

-Mrs. Singh