Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee!

We had a lot of fun with pumpkins this week.  We turned five large pumpkins into globes in Social Studies class.  The children had to place the continents in the correct locations using the equator and prime meridian as a guide.  Then they labeled the oceans.

Then we had a fun lesson in math where we estimated the weight, circumference and number of seeds in  several pumpkins.  We worked in cooperative groups to measure and count the seeds in the pumpkins.  We discovered that our smallest pumpkin had more seeds than some of the larger pumpkins.  

Pumpkins were raffled off to the students.   Thank you to Mrs. Snow, Mrs. Pearsall Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Hood for helping out.

More Smart Board Lessons

In this lesson, children clicked on a window in the haunted house that revealed a noun on candy corn.  We then wrote the plural of the noun on the candy.

We played an addition math game on the Smart Board.  The children rolled the die to place a number on the board and create an addition problem that would yield a greater sum than the other team could create.

More Fun With Alliteration

We made silly skeletons out of Q-tips and wrote some very funny alliterative sentences on bone shaped paper.  Some students used "S" word for their skeleton and others chose to use "B" words and name their skeleton _(Bobby)_Bones or something similar.  These Silly Skeletons are Skipping in a Synchronized Sidekick!

Haunted House Stories

The children are working on writing a haunted house story.  We are focusing on writing a good beginning, middle and end and including lots of details using the five senses.  They are doing a great job and we will share our stories next week.

Map Skills

The children worked on their Haunted Hayride Maps for Social Studies.  They made a key and then had to draw the map according to the directions, placing the symbols in the correct places on the map using the compass directions.  We checked our maps by following the directions and creating the map on the Smart Board.

Water As Ice

We have been investigating what happens to water has it heats, cools and freezes.  We measured water and placed it in a vial and syringe and then froze it.  The children discovered that water expands when it freezes

Estimating Sums in Math

We have been working on adding larger numbers in Math.  We have learned how to round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred to estimate a sum.  Here we are using individual whiteboards to practice this skill.