scarecrows

I made these centers Julie Lee style.

We learned to make patterns without using color.

Pumpkins

This week we learned about the letter Pp.

We read Animal Babies in Grasslands.

We continued to blend sounds to read words.

We had a fun time at our Fall Festival.

(From Julie Lee)

(Most of the ideas are from Kindergarten Crayons)

Question of the Day:

We were shocked to find out it would float.

String Graph:

We guessed the circumference of our pumpkin.

(2 of us were right!)

We then conducted the following experiment:

(found on pinterest)

(I can't wait to see if this sprouts - so cool!)

We talked about the outside and inside of a pumpkin:

(We cut a pumpkin in half to see what it looks like inside)

We made a pumpkin and labeled it:

(We used the seeds from our pumpkin)

Here are a few pictures from last week:

We worked on spider centers from Julie Lee, but I forgot to take pictures.

We read Armadillo's Orange and completed our Story Map:

We went on a walk looking for patterns:

Steps, ramp, steps, ramp:

(I got desperate!)

Central unit, sidewalk, central unit, sidewalk:

Orange, white, orange,white:

Apples

This week we learned about the letter Aa.

We read Life in an Ocean

We learned to blend letter sounds to read words.





(from Julie Lee)

Sight words and color words.

Sight Words

Initial Sounds

Letter Writing

Nonstandard Measurement

We practiced writing the Letter Aa

(Steps to Literacy Kit)

We finished book 2 this week.

We compared names

We ordered our names by the number of letters.

We answered questions of the day  to make our apple glyph.

Are you a boy or girl?

boy-black stem

girl-brown stem

Which apple is your favorite?

color of apple

Have you ever been to an apple orchard?

yes - 2 leaves

no - 1 leaf

Then we labeled the parts of an apple

We compared Johnny Appleseed to Farmers.