After a fun-filled Friday, the Frog Room fired up for another day of Halloween festivities on Monday.
During reading, we worked on our fluency by practicing our Halloween songs and poems. We also read lots of silly and spooky stories
In writing workshop, we perfected our sequential, step-by-step writing by finishing up our recipes for "witches' brew." After that, we shared our recipes and actually made witches' brew in class! It was incredible how many descriptive words we were able to add after actually crunching on bat wings (fritos) and munching on skeleton eyeballs (cookie crisp). We also got to sample some spider sweat (sprite) and frog spit (fruit punch). Thanks for your generous (and creepy!) donations.
After lunch, our classroom filled up with another batch of fabulous helpers. With one parent volunteer at each table, we dove into an afternoon of Pumpkin Math. Using "The Great Pumpkin Investigation" books as their guide, each group practiced making and testing predictions on a variety of topics. Overall, we learned that pumpkins are lighter than we think (one kiddo guessed that his pumpkin was 115 pounds!), smaller than we think, filled with MANY more seeds than we think (2,840 seeds for roasting and tasting on Tuesday!) and the biggest discovery of all: pumpkins float!
Another BIG thank you to all who donated supplies, time, and lots [and LOTS!] of patience to help make our Halloween activities fun and memorable for all of us. What a magical time to be a child!
Enjoy the pictures!
During reading, we worked on our fluency by practicing our Halloween songs and poems. We also read lots of silly and spooky stories
In writing workshop, we perfected our sequential, step-by-step writing by finishing up our recipes for "witches' brew." After that, we shared our recipes and actually made witches' brew in class! It was incredible how many descriptive words we were able to add after actually crunching on bat wings (fritos) and munching on skeleton eyeballs (cookie crisp). We also got to sample some spider sweat (sprite) and frog spit (fruit punch). Thanks for your generous (and creepy!) donations.
After lunch, our classroom filled up with another batch of fabulous helpers. With one parent volunteer at each table, we dove into an afternoon of Pumpkin Math. Using "The Great Pumpkin Investigation" books as their guide, each group practiced making and testing predictions on a variety of topics. Overall, we learned that pumpkins are lighter than we think (one kiddo guessed that his pumpkin was 115 pounds!), smaller than we think, filled with MANY more seeds than we think (2,840 seeds for roasting and tasting on Tuesday!) and the biggest discovery of all: pumpkins float!
Another BIG thank you to all who donated supplies, time, and lots [and LOTS!] of patience to help make our Halloween activities fun and memorable for all of us. What a magical time to be a child!
Enjoy the pictures!
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