October 5, 2012 - Pumpkin Fun!

Highlights from the week:

• Special theme of the week: Pumpkins
• Heart word of the week: am
• In language arts, we read a book called, Whose Baby Am I?  With this book, we practiced finding our heart word "am", making predictions on what will happen next, and figuring out the pattern in the story.
• In math, we were introduced to a new math center called, Which Bug Will Win.  At this math center, we are practicing counting, comparing quantities, and exploring probability.
• In writing, we continued to practice writing stories in our journals.  We are working on using heart words in our stories.
• In science, we have begun to learn about pumpkins.  We created a chart called a KWL chart.  We recorded what we already know about pumpkins...that's the K part (what we KNOW).  Then we came up with some things we want to know...that's the W part (what we WANT to know.  As we learn some things about pumpkins, we record it on the L part (what we LEARNED).
• The garden teacher took us out to the garden this week and let us explore some of the things it has to offer!
• During community centers, we opened our Harvest Center.  Here we are practicing buying, selling, and sorting produce.  We are also learning about harvesting and farmer's markets.  At our science center, we are exploring gourds, sorting gourds, measuring gourds, and weighing gourds.  At our art center, we are finger painting a pumpkin orange, but only using the colors red and yellow.