Pumpkin Graphic Organizer

Just a little something until I come off the high of 50's Day!

Pumpkins Graphic Organizer

Fall on the Hall!

 OK, I have to introduce you to the amazing teachers/friends that I work with at Providence!  I was able to get most of my team in action but still have to snag Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Fowler.  You're next, ladies! 

We all make a Thanksgiving Book but we each include our own favorites. Ms. Potts teaches her students about the type of home the Wampanoags actually lived in.  They make their own for their books and write a sentence with a fact that they learned.

Ms. Potts really works with her class on journal writing and it shows!

So proud of their hard work!

I love how happy they are to show off their work.

Ms. Holzer's class gets detailed with their scientific observations on their class pumpkin.  They paint the paper plates and then label the parts of the pumpkin.  She likes to work on this project in stages.

She made a display in the hall with her pumpkin vines, Stellaluna fruit bats and Spiders in the Web.

Her class will write spider facts and include this page in a Fall Science Book.

Mrs. Booker's class estimated the circumference of their class pumpkin and checked to see who came the closest in length.

Mrs. Johnson's class made Number Turkeys!

Mrs. Johnson always has something up her sleeve...I was walking by her room during my planning time and noticed her entire class sitting on the carpet QUIETLY listening.  They were playing Silent Bingo using initial consonants and loving it!

So quiet...I mean you could hear a pin drop.  Even when I rudely came back with my camera and interrupted the whole process!

Just another fun way to learn those initial sounds.

The cover of her Thanksgiving Book.

I had to include a photo of her huge Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins!

We finished our Pumpkin Books and sent them home today so I thought I would share some of our activities.  I was so happy to get them out on time! My team has been using these pumpkin literacy based activities for the past several years.  We all have our own take on them but each page includes an activity that directly relates to a story we have read for the month of October.  My friend, Lana, makes an October science book about bats, spiders and owls.  I will try to post some photos of her book.  They are looking good!  My photos are a little out of order, I just didn't feel up to duking it out with the blogger format and the way the photos upload.  It's Friday...








Michele, Maisha and Susan read Dem Bones and incorporate a lesson on our skeletal structure into the book.  We also read Don't Look at It, Don't Touch It! and the children make predictions about what Sara finds behind the door.  This year I included the Big Green Monster and a cute, surprisingly easy paper plate art project.  I got this idea from Suzan at  http://krazyforkindergarten.blogspot.com.

In our Math Journal, we measured the circumference of our pumpkin. 

Everyone got to estimate how much yarn it would take to reach around our pumpkin.  With the help our Peer Mentors, Kennedy and Kionna, each child measured how many Inchy the Inchworms it took to reach the end of their yarn. 

I made the Inchy rulers using clipart-each Inchy is of course, one inch long.  We will graduate to rulers by the end of the year but I wanted to give this method a try-it seemed more concrete.



We made pumpkin pancakes!





Thank you to Kerstin's mom and Brianna's mom for coming and helping us with our projects!



We stamped an AB pattern in our Math Journals.

We used adjectives to describe our pumpkins.



The apples will come down and we will add turkeys to our scene for November.




Of course, the best part was going to Tate Farms!



We wrote about our trip to Tate Farms and will include this in our Kindergarten Scrapbook for the end of the year with some of our pumpkin artwork.


Now on to turkeys, the Mayflower, Squanto and Thanksgiving!