Pumpkin Math

Halloween is right around the corner so we have decided to embrace the craziness and incorporate it into our learning.  The girls were given a Pumpkin Math packet, filled with different activities all based around pumpkins.  They will be estimating, observing and having fun all at the same time! 

Observing the pumpkin, writing down as many different descriptions as we could.

 

Brainstorming what was lighter and/or heavier than our class pumpkin.

Pumpkin Glyph

We started our Halloween fun today with a pumpkin glyph.  The girls had to follow certain directions and decorate their pumpkin accordingly--it is a fun and different way to collect data about our Pre-First class!  Be sure to ask your daughters how they decorated their pumpkins!

Catching up on our Mystery Readers

Many thanks to our latest Mystery Readers.  The girls look forward to this time so much and we thank you all for taking the time out of your days to read to them.

Maia's mom, Leslie, and special guest--her Grandmother!

Sophia's mom, Teresa, in costume :-)



 

Blair's mom, Karen

 

 

Pumpkin Teeth

Today we worked on our addition skills and number sentences by adding pumpkin teeth.  The girls had to roll a dice 2 times and place the number amount on the top and bottom.  They then had to count the teeth and write the addition sentence.  Can you tell we are inching closer to Halloween?

Ant Cafe

Today during science we discussed what an ant might eat if they were to eat out at a restaurant.  The girls ideas were fabulous--we had everything from hot dogs to pizza.  We narrowed our choices down to marshmallows, chocolate sauce, mustard, applesauce, ketchup, graham crackers and dog food--which is how our Ant Cafe was created.  The girls put on their"scientist" hats and predicted what the ants would like the most.

 

We then created our masterpiece entree.

 

And here is the Ant Cafe in action.

 

 

Unfortunately, the ants did not cooperate (cue the sad music).  We think with this cold spell that they have already started hibernating.  As a class, we decided to hang on to our prediction chart till the spring when the weather is more conducive to ants eating/crawling everywhere.  Another science experiment bites the dust....

Spirit Day

Sorry we are a little behind on the posts, but that tends to happen when dealing with 5 and 6 year old girls :-)  Here are some pics from our Spirit Day--the girls had sooooo much fun (who doesn't have fun when boas and bead necklaces are involved?).  We did get some decent learning in on Thursday, and the girls created beautiful daisies--which are hanging on our main window--they had to make their daisy and put the petals in order using ordinal numbers.  We are already looking forward to our next out-of-uniform day....HALLOWEEN!!!!!!  Bring on the craziness :-)

 

Making our ordinal number daisies.

 

"Patiently" waiting for the parade to start.

 

The amazing marching band from Morgan State.

 

This is what you have to look forward to when your girls get older.

"Harbor", by Donald Crews

Today we read the book Harbor, by Donald Crews--our Author of the Month.  We discussed the different types of boats he used in his book and even talked about our own Inner Harbor.  The girls then compared Harbor to a previous book we read called, Freight Train.  They used a Venn Diagram to compare the two books.