Halloween Week!

Hello Parents,

We had a fun and busy Halloween week! On Halloween time was spent experimenting with pumpkins, painting our Frankenstein drawings and watching room on the broom. Students also did some trick or treat writing and we have started working on comparing numbers to figure out which is greater or less!

Pumpkin Experiment 

To start out our day we got to take a closer look at pumpkins. Students worked with a partner to count the lines on their pumpkin, measure the height of their pumpkin, draw their pumpkin and predict whether their pumpkin would float or sink. After every group finished their predictions we went outside to test out our pumpkins to see whether they sank to the bottom or floated at the top! Many students thought that the big pumpkin we tested would sink, and they were blown away when it stayed at the top of the water! After testing our pumpkins in water, we went back inside, cut open one of our pumpkins and together counted the seeds! We cut one of the smaller pumpkins but we still found out that there were roughly 360 seeds inside! Here are a few pictures from our experimenting!

A student looks at the pumpkin floating!

Students put pumpkin seeds in a ten frame to count them.

All of our pumpkin seeds in ten frames.

The Monsters Monster

The day before Halloween I read students one of my favorite Halloween books called the Monsters Monster by Patrick McDonnell. From there we were able to draw our own Frankenstein monsters! Then on Halloween we took the tine to watercolor them! The students did a great job and they turned out so creative and colorful!

Room on the Broom

Another wonderful Halloween book is Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. I love this story because while it has Halloween themes it also has a great message about making room for others and including everyone. Netflix has a wonderful version of this book as a movie so during our Halloween party we watched the movie version while we had our Halloween snacks. It was a wonderful end of our day of celebration!

Watching Room on the Broom!

Cleaning our Classroom

About once every two weeks we have what I call “cleaning dance parties.” Basically I turn on kids music, give everyone a rag and we clean anything and everything in our classroom! The kids love it and I love getting to watch them clean and dance at the same time! I also love that they are gaining ownership of our classroom and discovering that we all have to help out to keep our classroom clean and ready for us to learn! 

Students clean our scissors and markers.

A student cleans off our whiteboards.

I can’t believe we are going into our last 5 day week before conferences! 

Cheers to the week ahead,

Miss Adams