In Circle Time We…..

Charted our favorite activities at school- The winner is snack time!
* disclaimer: voting occured before snack time. Results could be skewed……
Started to work on recognizing names
Matched jack-o-lanterns faces
Played ‘What’s missing?’ from the jack-o-lantern’s face
Pumpkin Life Cycle
Poem
5 Little Pumpkins
Light brite Pumpkin

What We Read This Week

Pumpkin Pumpkin By: Jeanne Titherington Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins By: James Dean

It’s Pumpkin Time! By: Zoe Hall

Paper story

( See above cut out, start with a piece of folded paper)

There once was a funny lady that lived in a house by My Weekday School; her house was round with a chimney on top(cut round house with chimney). This lady lived with a cat that had a long curved tail, so she had a special door cut just for her cat. She wore a pointy hat and made a special door so her hat wouldn’t fall off when she went through the door. Besides the cat, the little lady had two pet birds and made two windows in her house so they could fly in and out. On Halloween, all the boys and girls came to her house for a treat. They knocked on the door and, (close your eyes) Surprise!

A jack-o-lantern opened the door(unfold the cutting to reveal a jack-o-lantern)

Who Had Jobs This Week?

Line Leaders: Ethan, Declan, and Emmett

Plant Helpers: Christo, Ethan, and Henry

Ziploc Pumpkins

Students were given a ziploc with a pumpkin shape, yellow, and red paint. The kids push down with the flat of their hands to spread and mix the paint until their pumpkin became orange.

Pumpkin Suncatchers

The kids painted orange paper plates, and then later that day, collected natural elements from the playground. The center was cut out once the plate had dried. A teacher applied contact paper and the kids used the sticky center to create one-of-a-kind nature collages.

Five Little Pumpkins

This project was based on the book Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins and classic fingerplay; Five Little Pumpkins. The kids were given a sample project to reference and read the poem aloud.

Free art was painting a jack-o-lanterns at the easel, pumpkin dot page, jack-o-lantern stickers, and pumpkin coloring pages.