Pumpkins and Fall Party

Happy Wednesday!

Today was our first day with students this week, which felt a bit odd!  Monday was a teacher work day, and yesterday was a day off for the election.  It never fails...no matter how productive I am on teacher work days, I always feel like I leave with a bigger to-do list than when the day began!

Our class has been enjoying lots of fun pumpkin activities.  We cut open a pumpkin to study the inside.  We learned about the parts of a pumpkin, and then made a giant diagram to show each part.  We scooped out the seeds and pulp with our hands.  Messy!!  Today, we predicted how many seeds were inside our pumpkin.  We then grouped the seeds by ten, and counted how many we had in all.  The results were surprising!

We also made a visual to help us understand the number of seeds.

Last week we had our "Fall Harvest" party in lieu of a Halloween party.  The students played a fall bingo game, decorated jack-o-lantern cookies, and played "Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin".

 

 

I've been compiling a pumpkins unit with all of our games and activities.  To check it out, head over to my TPT store!

   

Please excuse the construction!

Krazy for Kindergarten is getting a facelift!  Please welcome "Club Kindergarten"!  We have two days off of school thanks to Hurricane Sandy, so I've decided to spend this time working on the blog.

And....

Yay for a registered domain!  Check out the new url!

http://www.clubkindergarten.com

:)

Apples

Time for our apples unit!  This is one of my faves! :)

We've done lots of fun apple-y activities.  We did a taste test to see which color was our favorite.  Afterwards, we graphed the results.

We did a five senses activity...

And we labeled the parts of an apple.

So much fun!  This week I'll be bringing in my slow cooker so we can make applesauce together!

To nab my free "Apples" unit, head over to my TPT store! :)

"Galimoto!"

Happy Columbus Day!  Hope you're enjoying it.  We had a two hour early dismissal today and a teacher work session, so today was very productive!

We had a little lesson in creativity during math today!  I read the book "Galimoto" by Karen Lynn Williams.  If you haven't read this, I definitely recommend it.  It's a Reading Rainbow book about a boy named Kondi.  Throughout the story, Kondi collects pieces of wire, which he later uses to create a "Galimoto", a toy car.  In the end of the story, Kondi is dreaming about other things he can make using the pieces of wire.

After reading the story, I gave each student four pipe cleaners to create their own "Galimotos".  Since it was a shortened day, I just gave the students time to explore and create with their pipe cleaners.  As an extension, you could have students draw and write about their "Galimoto" creations.