So I haven't blogged in a bit...
We had a BLAST for Halloween! We learned all about bats & made these:
The idea came from a 2006 (?) Mailbox magazine. I made the tracer myself, and every year the 5 x 8 index card has something different. In 1st it was Beginning, Middle, & End of Stellaluna. This year, for my Kinders, it was 2 bats can, bats are, or bats have sentences.
Then, we did some fun Halloween rotations with our 5th grade buddies. Two of the rotations were making
Frankenstein glyphs:
And finally, we finished the week learning about spiders & doing some
spider experiments...thanks for both (spider & Frankenstein ideas)
Deanna Jump!
This was all after returning from a 2 week fall break - where my students completed these take home projects:
Then last week we learned about elections & voting. We read Duck For President and had a class election, duck vs. pig. Duck won, but it was a close call...we even had a ballot or 2 go missing (just like the story & it was an HONEST mistake!). We had the cutest ballot box...thanks to great parent helpers!!
Because election was a mini-theme, we also did the folk tale The Little Red Hen. I was trolling Pinterest {yeah, like who isn't} and found a recipe for crock pot bread...SERIOUSLY! My teammate suggested we make wheat bread to accompany the story. I am always down for some baking with my kiddos, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Well, my crock pot was otherwise engaged {simmering a cheese tortellini & spinach soup recipe - which was also pinned from Pinterest...don't judge!} so I decided to bake my bread in my trusty bread machine...it turned out wonderful & my room smelled HEAVENLY all day! {FYI my 2 teammates did the crock pot bread recipe & it WORKED - that is AWESOME!!!}
Hoping your days are as great as mine have been,
Miss King
