Fall Festival

Today was the fall festival and we had a great time. This morning we started out with the parade around school, then we came into our class and had a snack then we played musical chairs and Halloween twister. This afternoon we went to each classroom and played games, it was very exciting. The class favorites were the feely box and the donuts on a fishing line.

This weeks Star is. . .

COLE

Last week's Star of the Week was. . .

I goofed and didn't get his picture posted last week. Sorry Jack you were a great Star.

Jack

Happy Diwali

Ketan's mom came in today and share with us the celebration of Diwali ~ The Festival of Lights we learned that it is a celebration in India and they get to eat a lot of sweets and light candles to celebrate victory of our good over our evil. She drew lanterns for us and we got to decorate them with sequins and crayons, markers and colored pencils. She also made a very sweet rice pudding.

Inside P.E.

Yesterday morning it was very wet here at school so Miss Deven came to our class and did P.E. our favorite game was "Ghost, Ghost, gobblin" it was so much fun.

Halloween Painting

We got to paint halloween boards with our 2nd and 3rd grade friends, it was very fun.

Look at what they did!

Thank you for helping if you came to the campus beautification on Saturday, the campus looks amazing. On Friday when we got back from the Pumpkin patch all the dead "monsters" were gone and then on Saturday they planted all these great flowers outside our classroom. We are having fun taking care of them. My stepson is going to make a planter box for us and we are going to grow our own vegetables. We can not wait.

Pumpkin Patch

We had such a wonderful time at the pumpkin patch yesterday, it was super hot and dusty, but the kids had a great time as soon as they got out of the maze, that was the worst for them. We also went on the tractor ride, ate lunch, played duck duck goose, saw a lot of animals and picked out our own pumpkin. It was a great trip. I will send out all the pictures on Monday.

Spiders, spiders everywhere

Today we made these cute spider webs and spiders. How much fun it was to draw our own webs, they did a great job. You are so lucky to have such wonderful children.

Pumpkin T-Shirts

Today we painted our faces on our t-shirts they came out so cute! We are going to be the best dressed school at the pumpkin patch.

Columbus Day

Today in class we talked about Christopher Columbus. We made these cute hats and read the book In 1492. We pretended we were on one of his ships and what it would be like. It was great to watch them pretend they found land.

Happy Birthday Cole

We went on a pumpkin hunt . .

One of the local temples donated 12 Mac Daddy pumpkins to our school, so after snack this morning we went on a pumpkin hunt to see how many we could find. We found them all! These pumpkins will become some of our math and science activities over the next couple of weeks. Check them out next time you are on campus.

What great artist

Today I was teaching the class about overlapping when drawing. They totally got it. We drew these great pumpkins that were overlapping. After we traced over the pencils drawings with sharpies we colored in the pumpkins very hard with our

pumpkin colored crayons. Then we added some grass. After that the fun really began we crumpled and crumpled and uncrumpled then crumpled our paper some more. After we flattened out our pictures for the last time we lightly in one long stroke painted our pumpkin patch. They did a great job, come check them out sometime.

Getting our shirts ready

Yesterday was teachers choice so all the elementary classes met in our classroom and we tied our white t-shirts with rubber bands to make our pumpkin t-shirts. All of the classes are very excited to see how they turn out. After all the shirts were tied up we all sat and watched Scooby Doo and ate popcorn. It was a great, fun afternoon.

Star of the Week is. . .

Ketan

Individual pictures

I love to take pictures of the kids in my class. Yesterday during circle I took some candid pictures of these cuties.

Fall has taken over our classroom

We have taken down all the apple stuff and begun all our fall activities. I love this time of year all the beautiful colors, the crisp air and the excitement of the count down until the Fall Festival and our trip ti the pumpkin patch. The kids are settling into the routine of school very well and making new friends. I know it will be a great year.

I must be loud

We are learning about our senses and talking about hearing and listening. We were drawing pictures in our "ear" book about things that we hear. Lauren drew a pictures a picture of "Miss Cathy". I must be loud or maybe I am quiet she also drew a worm crawling in the dirt and butterfly wings flapping.