Halloween has inspired lots of learning opportunities in our classroom. Writing, making stories and reading are some and others are based around science and math too! Not to mention lots of fun art activities. We also had a visitor Mr. G who was in to cover for Mrs. Latus and our students loved learning with him and thought he was Trudeau's brother! Enjoy the blog!
A reminder for tomorrow:
A blog after a few days (another blog will be posted after trip day and Halloween day at school).
The students wanted to practise writing out Halloween words and below you will see their hard work. When doing so they also worked on letter and letter sound recognition.
We knew we would decorate pumpkins eventually so we created beautiful art work to share what we would like our jack-o-lanterns to look like. This was after we read a wonderful story about pumpkins. We have some great artists in the class.
We love letting the students choose and by doing so learn more about quantity, graphing and numbers. We allowed them to choose which Halloween book they would like to have read to them by voting. Everyone had a day and was allowed to vote and "The Littlest Pumpkin" won!! It was a great story and we encourage you to ask your children what it was about.
We than brought out our cutie little pumpkins and chalkboards. No one asked the students to do anything specific but some were inspired to add using the pumpkins and to practise numbers. Little pumpkins are the cutest!!
We have seen little treats in all lunch bags and the grade 7's had fun helping us get wrappers after Mrs. Sanszole treated them to yummy goodies. We have been using the wrappers to work on High Frequency words "I" and "like" to write short sentences about which candy would be the best to eat.
The little pumpkins were given to our monkey doodles with plenty of materials to create their own designs. We have been having a great time at this center!
Our pumpkin investigation has been a BLAST. It began with some predictions and now we are starting to see if we guessed correctly. Today we found out that our large pumpkin had 596 seeds!! We learned how to count by 10's by sorting seeds together as a group, onto plates and counting them after we learned a song about counting by 10's. What a fun activity and we challenge you to count your seeds at home too. However, you may want to count the seeds from the smaller pumpkin as this was quite the challenge.
We have also been using various materials to check the circumference of the pumpkin and see how tall it is with classroom math manipulatives.
The most fun...was getting messy and seeking out our seeds. Ooeyyyy Goeeeyyy messes sure are amazing! Get in and have fun at home and use good descriptive words to think about how the pumpkin feels.
Each student received 10 seeds to help us count by 10's.
Measurement is so much fun...especially when Mr. G was here and we learned how to measure how tall he is. Thanks Mr. G for making this activity a blast and we hope to see you again one day.
Teachers have special Halloween powers and wrote secret messages which some students tried to uncover. A fun way to recognize letters and names.
Just a note about FRIDAY and COSTUMES:
*some parents have been asking and we have 31 students in the class.
*you may dress up with no weapons or masks and nothing too scary. In order to dress up we are asking for non-perishable canned good donations.
Lots of prayers tonight for a rain free trip!
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