Celebrating Read Across America Day and the 100th Day of School

Our Field Trip to Five Rivers

We had a terrific trip.  The fresh snowfall made for perfect tracks! 

Winter Fun

We love to get outside when the weather is nice and the snow is plowed high for us!

Hat Day

Turkey Time Fun

We enjoyed completing our turkey pie graph and analyzing our data.

 We played games like Roll a Turkey.

 We read a funny story about Pilgrims eating pizza.

 We added new poems to our poetry notebooks.

 We got creative with our turkey handprint projects.

 Our pinecone turkeys were a lot of fun too!

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Turkey Trot Time

We spent a lot of time recently talking about ways we can show compassion in our classroom, our community, and at home.  The Food Drive and the Turkey Trot proved to be a great way to show our character education word of the month.  

We were eager to bring our items down for the Food Drive.

We had a blast dancing to the Turkey Trot song as part of our music and movement activities this past week.

Note: I'm hoping to show you a class picture of all of us in our Turkey Trot headbands.  My camera battery dies just as I was about to take it, so I used my video camera.  Now I need to teach myself how to take the photos off the camcorder and put them on here. :) 

Update on Pumpkin Riley

Here is Pumpkin Riley after being out in the garden for a few weeks:

Halloween Part 2

I apologize for the delay in posting.  I'm having issues with my laptop (again), and it takes forever to try to upload pictures and post them to the blog.  I'm secretly hoping this laptop will just quit altogether so I can justify getting a new one! :)  

Our Halloween celebration didn't end with the costume parade.  Students enjoyed some snacks and drinks while decorating their pumpkins in the afternoon.  Thank you to the parent helpers for providing all of the treats, pumpkins, and materials.  Lots of fun!

Doing the Skeleton Dance was a lot of fun during the month of October. :) 

Happy Halloween

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: