Pumpkin Carving!!!

This is the pumpkin we chose from the pumpkin patch....its time to make a jack-o-lantern!!

First, we cut the lid.

Next, we scooped out the pulp.

Then, we drew on the face.  The students picked a happy face with vampire teeth. =)

Last, we cut out the face starting with the eyes first.

The Pumpkin Patch =)

We had a blast today at the pumpkin patch!!  

Here are a few things we did!! =)

 

We got to go on a hay ride down to the pumpkin patch.  It was really bumpy. =)

 

 

 

 

While we were riding down we saw chickens and pigs!

The Pumpkin Patch!!!

 

 

 

Pumpkins for everyone!!

After we picked our pumpkins, there were more fun things to do!

Class Pictures~SMILE =)

 

Homecoming 2011

On Friday, September 23rd, the Storm Lake cheerleaders and football players came to visit the Elementary School. We had an assembly in the gym and all of the students were REALLY excited.  The kindergarten students came to school wearing their school colors and tattoos/beads they purchased from the cheerleaders.  We also made green football helmets to wear to the assembly to show our support for the green and white.  Go Tornadoes!

 

Meet C.Q.

When the students came into the classroom on Monday morning there was a special letter waiting for them....a letter from a frog named C.Q. (curiosity and questioning)  C.Q. wrote to the students with questions like, what do children look like?, how big are children? and do all children look the same?  He also sent us a picture of himself so we were able to see what he looked like too.  As a class, we decided we needed to compare C.Q.'s picture to a picture of a student in our class...we decided to draw Jayda.

 

 After drawing Jayda and placing the picture next to C.Q., we made a T-chart showing how Jayda and C.Q. are alike and how Jayda and C.Q. are different.  We decided sending the picture of Jayda, along with the T-chart back to C.Q. would be helpful to answer his questions....BUT, before we could do this, we decided it would be important to do what "good" authors do and label both pictures.  Once we were finished, we decided it would be fun for everyone in the class to make a labeled self portrait to compare with C.Q.!  It was a lot of work, but we had fun doing it!