We began our Fall unit with pumpkins of course! The students learned all about the pumpkin life cycle and made their own to retell the stages of the life cycle.
We mixed yellow and red to paint our own pumpkins...then we turned them into jack-o-lanterns. We discussed how facial expressions can show how someone (or a pumpkin) is feeling. They added eyebrows, eyes, mouths, and teeth to create their one-of-a-kind jack-o-lanterns. We used adjectives to describe our pumpkins too! Check out the use of sight words and phonetic spelling!
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| I can see my fat sad pumpkin.-Zayne |
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| I can see my scary pumpkin.-Jack |
The students used shapes to make another jack-o-lantern and practiced counting and adding!
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| Seth's jack-o-lantern! |
A few days a week, we have a center time we call, Daily 4. The students practice many literacy skills such as: writing, working with words, listening, reading to others and reading to themselves. Here are some of the activities we had fun with this week.
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| Sorting beginning sounds |
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| Handwriting practice |
To practice our new sight word "like" we looked through magazines and catalogs to find things we like!
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| Looking for books and characters we "like" |
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| Tracking-pointing to each word as it is read |
After looking at many pictures of beautiful sunsets, the students created their own picture perfect pumpkin patch sunsets!
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| Vancennzo's "Pumpkins at Sunset" |
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