Happy Halloween! I just had to share our nature pumpkins with you. Usually we decorate our pumpkins with those foam sticker shapes you can buy from Michaels (which ends up looking very cute), but this year I decided we’d go more au naturel. So after our trip to the Pumpkin Farm off we went on a walk to collect all … Read more
This week we’re learning about pumpkins. First we read a book about pumpkins and then we watched a video (it’s a super cute video with accurate info and a song. My kids loved it!) We also pretended we were pumpkin seeds growing into pumpkins, which was silly but memorable. Pumpkin Life Cycle Booklets Afterwards, the kids made pumpkin life cycle … Read more
Part of our Grade 1 science curriculum is the needs of plants. I was trying to think of a way to jazz it up a bit this year and I came up with this. I enlarged the image above (you can click it to grab) on our school photocopier to 11 by 14. Below each of the three pumpkins I … Read more
Inside: Review of Pumpkin Circle and links to activities. I just couldn’t resist one last pumpkin book before Halloween. Pumpkin Circle is definitely my all-time favourite for teaching the kids about the life cycle of a pumpkin. If you only buy one pumpkin book, this is it! Title: Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden (Amazon affiliate link) Author: George … Read more
We made black cats, shared our pumpkin knowledge in drawings, made 3-D pumpkin life cycle books, practiced some spooky sight words, and learned two new poems. BLACK CATS Every year I make these adorable black cats. They’re super simple, but I think they’re so effective with their bright eyes! With the Grade ones, I always give them tracers to cut … Read more
Like a lot of people I LOVE the fall, but I especially love Halloween. My birthday is the day before (darn, I missed by less than 4 hours), and all my birthday parties had a Halloween theme. So of course I have to join the Halloween Book Linky hosted by First Grade Found Me (link below). I have tons of … Read more
Inside: You’ll find 2 gorgeous pumpkin art projects, a pumpkin tree map, pumpkin writing paper, and a pumpkin addition game. It’s fall again and time to visit the pumpkin patch. Our yearly visit to the pumpkin farm, which includes a train ride, might just be the most exciting field trip we have all year. If you need a few extra … Read more