Long Ago and Today / Thanksgiving

     Oh my!!  I can’t believe that October is almost over.  We are getting ready to move on to our Long Ag & Today / Thanksgiving Unit.  I love this unit.  My students always enjoy learning about how things have changed over the years.  We always bring this unit to a close by having our own feast where my students and I do all the cooking and invite our parents to come and eat with us.  It is one of those MEMORIES we love to make while learning about cooking measurements, how preparing food has changed over the years, healthy foods, how to set a table and how we can cooperate to make this event all possible and MUCH more.  This is going to be a great month!!!

      Below is a look at my TPT unit that we complete in my class. Please take a look!!

Pumpkin Fun!!!

Last week we learned all about pumpkins!  I just realize that I had a few pictures I thought some of my families might enjoy.  I used my pumpkin unit as we explored a pumpkin.  Here are just a little that we did.

Math Common Core

 We put a new twist on an old activity.  We always like to use our fall leaves and practice writing the numbers 0-20 and putting them in order, but this year we worked on developing concepts of counting & cardinality by adding the number of chips on top of each number.

    My little friends loved doing this!!!!

Pumpkin time!!

Wow Pumpkins!!  We love pumpkins.  I asked my class to predict what would happen if we added soil to our pumpkin.  The most common answer was that it would rot.  One child said it would grow and my little friends were very adamant that would NOT happen.  We next completed our prediction page.  Well I guess I started it a little too soon this year.  It sprouted in 4 days!!  How exciting when my little friends came into the class that morning!!  It was an exciting day.  We could tell a difference from morning to afternoon on how tall it grew.

 

 

We started with one sprout and by the afternoon, we had more!!

 

I have just put my Pumpkin Unit on TPT.  It is a fun filled learning unit!!

 

Common Core Math

All of our teachers have been super busy implementing the Common Core Math Standards!!  It has been so much fun working together to come up with new and exciting ideas!!  We have a great math specialist who has really been a great help.  Check out some of the great pictures.

 

              Using five frame cards!!  We have really enjoyed playing all kinds of games.

One to one correspondence with ladybugs!!  We added a great twist by using tweezers to help develop our fine motor skills!!