October went out with a bang!

We got new white boards! Last week Mrs. Autman the reading coach at Wilbur Elementary delivered to our classroom 20 new white erase boards! The kids were so excited that they began writing right away!

Pumpkins Pumpkins Pumpkins

Two weeks ago our weekly theme was about pumpkins. During this week we read the books Pumpkin Pumpkin, Life Cycle of a Pumpkin, and Pumpkin Town. We also watched a cool You Tube video on how to grow the kind of pumpkins that we eat.

We also tried weighing our class pumpkin. We first took turns picking it up and we compared the weight to a kid, a brick, a chair, a table, an apple, and other materials. Next we sorted pictures by things that weighed more and things that weighed less. 

That week we got to cut open a pumpkin to see its 'guts'. The kids were sooo excited about this. They got to scoop out the pulp and seeds. Then they separated the pulp from the seeds. Once they finished we put our seeds in the sun to dry.

Once the seeds were dry we made our own mini pumpkins. Each student then labeled the parts of the pumpkin that we talked about.

JDRF Walk

Last week we also had the JDRF walk Tuesday before our special time. The kids walked outside for a while then were brought back inside once they completed their laps. 

Anti-Bullying Assembly

A couple of Mondays ago we had an assembly on bullying. The speaker was GREAT! He really got on the kids level, involved them and made it fun. You may have seen them wearing special stickers that day when they had come home.

Here is an a video of our presenting doing the same presentation we saw but in Washington DC!

Finally we had a new Zero the Hero!!! Welcome the hero for the 40th day of school! Even though this happened 8days ago I still wanted to share the cute photo!

These past couple of weeks have gone by in a blur! It is hard to believe that we are already in November. Keep your eyes posted later this week because I will be posting about the fall festival, letter P day, grandparents day, and storybook character day. If you want to see what we have been up to in math head over to Mrs. Williams website at The Kinder Kids Website .

First week of October

We have had a busy FUN week! I added some things to our class calendar and made a change so take note! Tuesday, October 29th will be our Letter P Day (P is for Party). On this day students can come to school in their pajamas. Wednesday, October 30th will now be the kindergarten Fall Festival. It will be at 1:40-2:40, if you can attend and volunteer please let me know! Last year we did pumpkin activities, counted pumpkin seeds, painted pumpkins and had a sack race. 

This past week was fire prevention week and on Monday we had Mr. Bill come from the Delaware Fire Company to talk to the kids about fire safety. Each kid got to sit in a fire truck and see how it works. 

Once we got a tour of the fire truck Mr. Bill told us about when to call 911 and we talked about what an emergency is. Then Mr. Bill showed us a fire alarm and actually set it off! All the kids were surprised at that! Finally Mr. Bill put on his fire suit and told us were the good breathable air is during a fire and where the bad air was. The kids were a little scared of Mr. Bill in his suit at first but quickly were able to settle down.

After Mr. Bill was done he gave us our own plastic fire hats and a bag full of materials. It was a fun activity and all the kids learned a lot!

On Wednesday this week we did a science experiment! We combined orange paint, glue, and shaving cream to make a puffy foam paint! Then we painted paper plates that we could turn into pumpkins!

On Tursday we turned our orange paper plates into pumpkins and put a picture of ourselves inside the pumpkins! Right now they are decorating our classroom door and are too cute!

We also learned two new letters this week and three new words! This week we learned the words in, to, and here. That means that so far this year we have learned the words: a, I, the, of, and, in, to, and here. The letters we learned this week were letter H and letter J. For letter H we made H hotdogs and for J we made J jellyfish! (I will post the J jellyfish pictures next week)

For math we had Zero the Hero come for the 30th day of school!! 

As I said it has been one busy week! The kids were great through all the changes and activities and they learned a lot.