Pumpkin Fun in Our Classroom

Learning about the Life Cycle of a pumpkin:

 Two great books to get us thinking about how pumpkins change throughout the seasons:

 We decided to create our very own Pumpkin Jack.

 We had a drawing to choose the name of our pumpkin.  Meet Pumpkin Riley! 

 We watched some great time lapse videos of pumpkins growing on our SMART board.

 Carving Pumpkin Riley:

Snippets and Snapshots

We have been studying informational texts to learn about ways people, animals and plants change throughout the seasons.

This month Gail Gibbons is part of our author study.

We worked in cooperative groups to create a tree for our seasonal mural.

We enjoyed working as a team to paint the trunks for our trees.

Next, we decided how we would decorate our tree to show the changes of the tree throughout the seasons.

What's in our book bin?  We begin the year with adding our poetry notebooks, sight word books, alphabet books, and list and label books.  

Welcome to Our Classroom

Today we welcomed a new friend to our room.  He had a terrific day, and we all think he will be very happy in our classroom this year.  Be sure to ask your child about him.