Spiders, ewwww......

Literacy
We had a pumpkin rotation on Monday where the kids had a chance to visit each kindergarten room and do something different with pumpkins. In Mrs. Hodges room the kids measured, sorted and weighed pumpkins. In Ms. Weinke's room they used their five senses to describe the pumpkin insides and all. In Ms. Ragan's room they did an art project that went along with our poem from last week:

5 little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said "Oh my, it's getting late"

The second one said, "There are witches in the air"

The third one said,"But we don't care"

The fourth one said, "Let's run and run and run"

The fifth one said, "I'm ready for some fun"

Oooo went the wind and out went the lights

And 5 little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

In our class we hollowed out a pumpkin and counted the seeds up to 100. In Mrs. Patz's class they made a book of the pumpkin life cycle and in Mrs. Bell's class they made pumpkin bread!

•  Handwriting: Zz and Ww
• Word wall words: pink, am, up
• Poems: The Pink Song, Little Miss Muffet, The Itsy Bitsy Spider
• wrote in our journals about spiders and monsters!
• center work
• write the room: spider
• read it, make it, write it
• rhyming words
• words that start with W
• fill in the blank The Itsy Bitsy Spider
• magnet center

Math

• focused on positional words such as: above, between, beside, under, over, etc.
• center work and jobs
• sorting
• graphing
• connect the dots

Science

• learned the parts of a spider
• made our own spiders and labeled them
• labeled a big spider in Ms. Ragan's class
• watched The Magic School Bus Spins a Web

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