Dry Ice Science Experiements

Our science experiment was too cool this week.  I took lots of pictures but Mr. Betz, our media specialist, taped it and make an awesome video.  Take a look!

Halloween Fun

On Halloween, Mrs. Jones, aka Pirate Penelope, told spooky stories and danced to fun songs like Ghostbusters.  We loved all the decorations.  I tried to take pictures in the dark, but they just didn't come out as good.  We waited until the end and had our picture taken with Pirate Penelope.  We also had fun with pumpkins. We did lots of math activities with our pumpkins that our families sent in. Below are a few of the pumpkin activities.

Pirate Penelope with her scurvy crew.

Doing the Monster Mash, it's a graveyard smash!

Pirate Penelope told several spooky stories.

We estimated how much string would fit around our pumpkin and then checked our estimations.
We learned the new term, circumference.

We also estimated if our pumpkin weighed more than a bag of sugar or less.
Then we weighed our pumpkin. 

Next we graphed what kind of face we wanted on our Jack-o-lantern.

Then, we estimated how many seeds we thought would be in our pumpkin.

Our next task was to out all those seeds.  We put them in groups of 10.
We decided that would make it easier to count.

And finally, we have our Jack-o-lantern.

We also made Halloween patterns with foam Halloween shapes.

We also did math activities with DEM BONES but I forgot to take pictures.
We had lots of fun on Halloween.  Thanks to the parents that sent in candy and treats for our goody bags.
The snacks were good too.  Thanks for the special snacks.

Pumpkins and Scarecrows

We have been doing all kinds of activities centered around pumpkins and scarecrows.
Below is a picture of our scarecrow. We made him.

First we had to write sight words from our reading folders. Two words per sheet.

Next, we had to take our sheet and read our sight words to Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Martin.

Then, we went to Mrs. Wilbanks, crumbled up our sheets and stuffed them into the pants and shirt to build our scarecrow.

Henry loved it! He was very excited.

Arianah had to hurry to start another sheet. We worked on the scarecrow for at least 20 minutes. We had some of the best writing and excitement about reading sight words all year!

We also had pumpkin games. Mrs. Smith's group is playing pumpkin add ups. They roll a number and put that many pumpkins in the patch. Cover them up and roll again. Add that many pumpkins to the patch and count up to find the new number. Don't forget to write the total number of pumpkins in the pumpkin patch.

During guided reading, we played on Starfall.com. They have a reading activity that is about pumpkins.

You even get to pick your own pumpkin and build it. The computer in the middle is making a pumpkin. The other two are interacting with the story about pumpkins.

We have other fun pumpkin activities too.