Pumpkins and Jack-O-Lanterns

With October 31st fast approaching, we have been busy with all things HALLOWEEN!

We carved jack-o-lanterns with the help of some of our parents. 

For several of our parents, this was the first time they have carved a pumpkin!

Look at these great jack-o-lanterns!

 Look at all the seeds we dug out of our pumpkins.  We roasted a whole pan of seeds.  They were delicious!  We also got to take some home. 

We saved the rest of the seeds. We are drying them now and will keep them until Spring.  Then we will plant them and hope to grow our own pumpkin patch!

Next, we used strips of paper to make more jack-o-lanterns!

Spelling List 8

Our words for next week...
rest
best
nest
fast
last
most
lost
cook
took
wood
lasted
rested

The  extra words...
boy
girl
get
let
candy

Our Leaf Art Pictures

The leaves are pressed and dried!  They are ready for the next step of our art project....

 We look at all the leaves we collected and find "just the right ones" for our pictures.

Once we picked the leaves, we laid they down on the paper and made a plan .   What will our pictures be?

We had so many ideas!

After planning out the picture, we then started to glue things into place.  We used paper and crayons and felt pens to add details to our "stories".

Look at these creative masterpieces!  Everyone came up with such unique ideas!  

 And like many artists do, we all came up with a title for our piece of artwork!

What a creative group of students we have!

Spelling List 7

Here are the spelling words...

ten
six
two
four
three
be
baby
father
here
use
been
babies
and
for
like
that
there

A Fall Walk

With the sun shining, we went out for a walk around the neighbourhood to gather some leaves...

Back in the classroom we learned how we can press and dry the leaves.  Next week we will use these dried leaves for an art project!

Being Thankful...

Here are few of the stories we read this week as we talked about Thanksgiving.  Then we took some time to think about all that we are thankful for...

Turkeys

We had some fun in art this week making "turkeys" using apples, toothpicks and some colourful marshmallows!  Many of the children said they will go home and ask if they can make more with their families!

First field trip of the year!

This past week, our class went to Southlands Farms.  We learned about horses and other animals.  We learned about the vegetables growing in the garden and we had a walk through the orchard.

We went into the stables

The horses were very friendly

For some of us, this was the first time we got to pet a horse!

We also visited the chickens and held an egg!  It was warm from the hen sitting on it!

We also visited the garden and saw beans and corn growing.  We even tasted golden berries and edible flowers!

And...there were pumpkins everywhere!

After the garden, we got to go visit the goats!

They loved being hugged!

At the end, we all got to jump into the hay pile!!

Some of us looked like scarecrows when we came out!!  We had straw stuck to every part of of our body!!

 When we got back to school, it was easy to write about this wonderful experience!  Here are a few of our stories.  The rest are up on the bulletin board outside our classroom.  Drop by to look at the photos and read the stories!