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

My lucky day

Today when I checked my school mailbox, it was jam packed!  I got two packages!!!

 I received these scissors for sending in my school supply list :)  I already got 3 pair of children's scissors last school year and these are full sized ones from the same company!

I am "friends" with The Frugal Gal" on Facebook and she was offering the VHC book, so of course I entered her contest- The children will be so happy when I share this book with them. First grade does butterflies in the spring-- I don't know if I can't wait that long to share it with them though!!!

WKA- October 16th

Several teacher's and I attended the Wisconsin Kindergarten Association's  fall meeting October 16th. The three of us that were going together, left about 5 am!!! I got up at about 4.

Here is the amazing Km Jordano and myself at the conference.  Check out her fabulous site:kinderbykim for some amazing ideas.  I only bought one book because I didn't bring my checkbook! Used my cash wisely though!!!

Day and Night

Day and Night is our topic this week.

 In Kindergarten and First grade we brain stormed things that we saw during the daytime.

For 2-5 we brainstormed things that we saw at day/both/night

Here is the science log from a 5th grader:

Elementastics

Week number two with the fun ladies from Elementastics.

We used black or brown markers and coffee filters.  We p-u-l-l-e-d apart the marker dots to see the colors in the markers. 

We made SLIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go here for the  Slime recipe. We added water to the glue bottle and shook it. We poured it in a cup we stirred  continuously then we added some Borax. We used the new neon food coloring.  I am loving the purple!!!