Pumpkins oh Pumpkins! and more....

Mon-Wed and Fridays we go to the kindergarten lab

to work on either Fast ForWord (FFWD) or I Station (ISIP).

The kids really LOVE these games. We also play them in class

every free chance we get. They are excellent reading programs.

Ask your child about it.

 On Monday we got to be scientist and perform Sink and Float experiments.

It was interesting to see just how many kids predicted that a pumpkin would sink

just because itwas big. Or that the small pumpkin would float

but that the big pumpkin would sink. This is an easy and fun experiment to

do at home with your kids.

Mrs. Hendrix's class is really rocking with reading! Thank you parents

for being so diligent and signing & returning their homework folders

+ leveled readers every day. Practice makes perfect. This week everyone got a

chance to read their book to the reading group. Then Joshua, Eva, Jayla and Gwendolyn

read their books to the ENTIRE class. They all did an amazing job and it takes

a lot of courage to read to your entire class. I am so proud of how hard

they are working and how far they have come so far.

We Rock!

 

Thank thank you for ALL of the pumpkin donations. We have our

own little pumpkin patch in the classroom! The kids love comparing, counting

and just looking at all the pumpkins. It really helped out when we made

our "Pumpkin on a Vine" picture because we used our

real life pumpkins as our model for our illustration. They loved getting to paint

pumpkins onto their papers and then getting to decorate it with their

own touches. These will be displayed in the halls so keep your eyes open!

 

Yet another thing we did with our pumpkins is we got to guesstimate

the circumference of our largest pumpkin. Troy, Amir and Joey

all perfectly guess the circumference of our pumpkin!

The class's FAVORITE pumpkin activity was getting to carve and explore the insides

of a pumpkin. They loved digging into the flesh and pulp of the pumpkin while

pulling out tons of seeds. When we finished we carved a jack-o-lantern and

filled out our pumpkin report in our journals.

 

 Another project that will be displayed in the halls are our

jack-o-lanterns. I am really impressed with how fun these

turned out.

10 Pumpkins on a Vine - finished product

No matter what I tried, the pictures would not stop being upside down.

Sorry!

 

 

CENTERS!!!!!!