The Lifecycle of a Pumpkin

After reading "Pumpkin Jack" by Will Hubbell, we created pumpkin Lifecycle projects.  We practiced orally telling about the life cycle of the pumpkin, starting with the rotting pumpkin in our classroom!! Please have your child continue to practice this skill of orally telling about the life cycle of the pumpkin!

Nonfiction text features

Since school started, we have been looking at the differences between fiction and nonfiction books.  This week, we dove deeper!  Here is the chart we made about the nonfiction text features:

Next, we broke off into groups to make a Nonfiction Text Features book.  We used the anchor chart to make a page for titles, labels, captions, illustrations, maps, and photographs.  Here we are cutting out pictures from nonfiction magazines to go on our book pages:

Grab your nonfiction books at home and see if you can identify any features! Happy reading!

Apple Orchard

We had a great time on our field trip!

Thanks to our parents and grandparents who joined us!

The rain held off and we had a great morning...

Learning about apples...bees must pollinate each apple blossom at least 4 times or the apple may not fully form correctly!

After our apple cider and apple donuts we...

Fed the goats...

Pet a bunny...

Picked a pumpkin and an apple!

Put feed on the conveyer belt...

And had a great time going down the slide and jumping in the hay!

In the afternoon we created a class book about our trip which is displayed in the hallway!

Walk-a-thon

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

 

 

Thank you, Mrs. VanDyke, for all your hard work putting this event together!  The kids had so much fun!!

We Cooked Applesauce!

Today was filled with excitement as we made applesauce!

 

We split the class into two groups.  One group made applesauce first, the other did apple math explorations!

 

Cooking:

  We used our five senses to cook!  The cinnamon smell was a favorite!

 

Apple Math Explorations:

Using a balance pan to find out how many bears it takes to weigh the same as an apple

Finding out how many cubes fit around their apple

 

Prediction:  Does an apple sink or float

Yum! Yum! Yum!