Pumpkins!

is for 

Jack-o-lanterns! We talked about the letter J this week. We had Jello jigglers in the shape of a J that we practiced tracing with our finger, and then we ate of course! How appropriate for our pumpkin theme! The kids used the shapes above to design their jack-o-lantern faces like jack-o-lantern card that they chose.

 They also decorated their own silly sticker pumpkins.

We talked about how pumpkins start as a seed, then the leaves start growing, then the green pumpkins appear, and finally we have our orange pumpkin. For this math center we put the seeds in their pumpkin according to the corresponding number on the page. If they couldn't recognize the number by sight, they could count the stickers to know how many seeds to use.

We made size comparisons with our pumpkins and our unifix cubes. We built our unifix cubes as tall as the pumpkins, and then counted how many unifix cubes tall each pumpkin was.

We practiced writing our names with pumpkin seeds! 

We also talked about more, less, or the same. We used pumpkins of course! We compared small pumpkins, candy pumpkins, and pumpkin seeds.

The Mon.-Wed. (Tues.-Thurs. on Fall break) class also got to play pumpkin zingo. We changed it up from the regular zingo game in that instead of having to collect the zingo markers by calling out first, they were ALL able to take a pumpkin and cover their picture and the person who filled  their 

sheet first was the winner.

Smile! We had a great week!

Book of the week: Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano

Songs:

5 Little Pumpkins

Five little pumpkins

Sitting on a gate

The first one said,

"Oh, my, it's half past eight!"

The second one said,

"There are witches in the air!"

The third one said,

"Good folk, beware!"

The fourth one said,

"We'll run and run and run!"

The fifth one said,

"Let's have some fun!"

OOOOOOOH, went the wind

And OUT went the light

And the five little pumpkins

Rolled out of sight.

and

Orange Song

(tune of wheels on the bus)

The pumpkins on the vine are orange, orange, orange,

Orange, orange, orange. Orange, orange, orange.

The oranges on the tree are orange, orange, orange.

O-R-A-N-G-E.

Happy Birthday this week to Braxton!

Our field trip to Gardner Village is coming up! Please watch for the details on where to meet and what time coming home Monday and Tuesday in your child's backpack!