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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Field Trip and Some More Photos

Today we went on our first field trip to Kidz Discovery Farm at the P.N.E. It was a lot of fun!

 

It all started with a tour of a miniature mock farm where the students were able to plant some tomato and carrot seeds.  

 

Next, we all travelled through a grain silo and collected some packages with different grains. From there we moved through a small cow barn and pretended to milk a cow. This was followed by another garden where our carrot and tomato seeds had magically sprouted and full grown tomatoes and carrots had grown.

Then came the apple orchard and chicken coop. We each picked one apple from the tree and chose either a brown or white egg to add to our basket of farm goodies.

Soon we were at the salmon farm, where we were able to try out some fishing and catch a fish or two.

Finally, our favourite, was riding in the miniature tractors around a small track.

When our tour was over, we sorted all the different farm foods we collected in our baskets and learned how the food we eat begins at the farm and makes its way to our local market and grocery stores.

After eating our lunches, we were able to watch the process of milking an adult cow and meet a baby calf.



 

We also got to pick a pumpkin from a pumpkin patch and over the next couple of days as well as into the next week, we will complete some fun pumpkin math activities and a few pumpkin experiments. When all our experiments are completed, our pumpkins will be sent home just in time to carve them for Halloween.

Speaking of Halloween, here's a cute pumpkin song that I thought some of you might enjoy. Maybe we'll even sing it in class. Just click on the link below to watch and listen to it.

Happy Halloween!

 

-Mrs. Singh