Monday 31 October 2016

Halloween Day!

Art- Making Frankenstein! 




Happy Halloween!!!




Silly Faces!!!


Scary Faces!!!


Excited!!!



Gym- Outside enjoying the sunshine!






Basketball



Hula Hoops


 Balance Beam!


Friday 28 October 2016

Pumpkins and Corn



Literacy- Journal Writing
"In the fall I like to..."


Sounding it out and using our Popcorn Word Chart



Using the Word Wall 




Music- Using "Boom Wackers"
Each colour makes a different sound! 

 

Math Songs


"Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm1qvX1ygOo 
A fun song to learn cardinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th)!

"Five Creepy Spiders"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbU34sHDBbg
Counting Backwards 5,4,3,2,1



Just for Fun...
 "Shake Dem Skeleton Bones"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns91jtuPHZI 


Science- Pumpkin Inquiry
What part of the pumpkin do you eat?


I roasted it the night before. We scooped out 2 cups...


 We mashed it...


Added 2 eggs... 



sugar, salt, spices...and milk.


 

Poured it into 2 pie shells, then waited for it to bake!

Math Centers


 Number Matching Mats
Counting (patterning too)





 Measurement
How many skeleton bones long is the leg? Arm? Head to Toe?


How many skeleton bones long are you?! 

 

Halloween Patterns


  Challenge- Put all the number mats in order from 0-10!



It became a group Challenge! Mrs. Kacz Handed out the Number Mats 
and the children had to put themselves in order! 







Pumpkin Pie was ready to eat! Yummy!


 Free Play- Restaurant time!


 Art- Candy Corn Pompom Painting






Fun Friday Math
What do we know about numbers 1-5?
How can you show/represent numbers?
-words
-numerals
-fingers
-objects




Science- Corn Inquiry


 What happened when to cob of corn was left to sit in water?
It started to sprout!!!!!
We learned- corn kernels are seeds!

 

When corn is dried out, we can use it for popcorn!



A sprout!


Not all corn is yellow!




Making popcorn on the stove top!