Halloween Magic!

BOO!

What a busy and fun day it was!

Our first class party was a success!

We enjoyed party centers, 

supervised by some of our mommies...
Halloween Bingo,

Witches Stew,



'I Spy...',

Pin-the-Nose on Jack,


Ghost Stack,

and Pumpkin Painting!

Prepared our festive table!

We feasted on awesome and spooky snacks!

So creative!!

So fun and healthy too!!

All with a dash of silliness sprinkled on top!

Thank you to all the parents who provided, 
snacks, juice, and paper products.
It made our party so much more exciting:)

Parties are the BEST when shared with friends!!





The day wouldn't be complete without 
carving a class Jack-o-Lantern!

Happy Halloween!

Exploring Pumpkins

We have been engaged in a big pumpkin inquiry 

the past few weeks and have had a very natural opportunity to explore our senses at the same time.

Using real pumpkins made the learning so easy and authentic.

 We can let the pictures do the talking here.

We enjoyed working collaboratively with friends to prepare paper that we later turned into pumpkins to hang in the hallway.

We stuffed our own pumpkins and added 
them to our pumpkin patch.

 

Drawing and cutting our own pumpkins 

shows how unique we each are. 

Using the glue bottle to create an orange collage was super fun too!

Strengthening little fingers at the finger gym.

We read a great story called The Runaway Pumpkin, 

and then put our engineering skills into practice and worked first to create a ramp that a pumpkin could roll down, but then designed something that would STOP the pumpkin in its tracks.

So fun!!

 

 

These little people are truly amazing!

Counting pumpkins and placing them in a 

pumpkin patch in the number corner.

During this inquiry unit, we were able to explore 

many nonfiction books and experienced first-hand 

the difference between fiction and nonfiction. 

We decided to try to make a collaborative 

diagram showing the cross-section of a pumpkin.

Painting the rind or pumpkin shell.

Creating the pulp.

Adding some tendrils and seeds.

The following day we added a few labels.

(pulp)

(rind)

 (tendrils)

(seeds)

Painting at the easel is always fun.

 

Today we discovered how to make a really

 cool shade of swampy-looking green.

It was just right for a pumpkin vine:)

Experimenting with liquid watercolors 

and absorption was a very calming activity.

Stay-tuned to see where our next inquiry takes us:)