We have been reading about Pumpkins.
Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington is a beautifully illustrated nonfiction book that teaches about the life cycle of a pumpkin, while at the same time tells the story of a little boy enjoying the outdoors throughout each season of the year.
We had some fun cutting open a pumpkin and describing it using our five senses. We discovered that our pumpkin weighed 11 pounds and was 31 inches around. It had a special smell and that it felt & looked different on the outside than the inside. Then we enjoyed snacking on some pumpkin seeds and designed a special face for our class jaco-lantern. This class pumpkin will be making a special appearance at our upcoming Halloween party!
Another fun seasonal book we have enjoyed is The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. This story was read to the class by our amazing speech therapist, Mrs. Peek who comes in weekly to do a whole group language lesson with our class. The skill we were working with here was retelling. The kids sequenced the story by cutting and pasting pictures of key events. I hope your K kid was able to tell you a little bit about the story when they brought this paper home. Consider checking this adorable book out of the library and reading it together some time.
And the month of October would not be complete without the poem "Five Little Pumpkins". Here is a cute video that we have enjoyed watching in our classroom. Reciting the poem is a terrific way to reinforce the use of ordinal numbers and counting up to 5. These are both skills the kids have been working on during math lessons.
Last, we are fully operational with our Daily 5 Literacy Centers! We are so fortunate to have Mrs. Barnes as a teachers assistant each afternoon. I have been doing an emerging reading lesson while she has been doing a writing or word work lesson with small groups. Other Daily 5 centers have been using Starfall.com on the interactive board to reinforce our letter study, listening to a book on tape and drawing pictures of our favorite parts and working on "books" at the coloring counter. Here is a picture of Mrs. Barnes having the kids make letters out of pumpkin play dough! I am including the recipe for you. It is easy to make and the kiddos LOVE it!
We completed our study of letters Ff & Tt and sight words for & to. Here are a couple more fun videos that reinforce the letters, sounds and sight words. The kids love dancing along to them. Music and movement are a delightful, age appropriate way to reinforce these vital skills. Why not have a letter family dance party? Have fun!
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