Nov 12th

Here is our Jack in Pieces.

Winner

I am actually a winner!  I can't say I never win anything, but I rarely win anything. I visited Growing Kinders and there was a contest about what we do for Thanksgiving. What I do is to have the children make a turkey and on the feathers, I have them write chores they can do to help out their families. I do this same type of thing in the spring for mother's day using flowers. :) That idea came from the "other" Mrs. R. (sometime I will share about the "other" Mrs. R at my school!)

I am looking forward to sharing my prize with the students :)

Elemtastics November 3

Elementastics came for their last time  this past Wednesday. :(  They really went all out this week though!!! The K-1 children made bath salts:

 We also put baking soda in balloons and then vinegar in the bottles and tipped over the balloons:

we watched as the balloon expanded :) We were amazed!!!

Spiders

This week we are going a little creepy crawly with spiders!!!

The library assistant also is a local celebrity and does balloons.  She made this AWESOME spider and web. This photo doesn't do it justice at all :(  It is so cool!!!!!!

We figured out how spiders don't get stuck to their webs. We used Deanna Jump's Simple Science Vol 1 for this experiment.  We also used some of the activities in Spiders. I also made this graph:

I printed spider letters for the question and answers. The spiders were cut from the Circuit we received free from one of our secretary's when she bought hers.

Jack-O-Happy

Pumpkins and Gourds is our topic this week. We sang a few songs.  We read a Weekly Reader.  We cut up the pumpkin life cycle in K-1 but we drew it in 2-5. I got the most funky gourds I could find for the children to explore.  The 2-5 children wrote riddles for the other students to try to guess which gourd they wrote about. I put numbers on the gourds, so they would remember which gourd they were talking about when they read their riddles.

I created a pumpkin/gourd observation sheet.

Here is our Jack-O-Happy:

Here is our Long Term Investigation sheet:

I still have to hang a calendar so we can keep track of the days we look back.  I am trying to keep myself more accountable, so I plan to hang this in a visible spot. :)

Some Kim Jordano photos-more

Some Kim Jordano photos