A Little Bit of Pumpkin!

I needed a little bit of sunshine today...just one of those days!

After school today I created a "Curious Pumpkin Patch."  

Mrs. Eads and I read "Big Pumpkin" to all of our firsties.  I love this book!!

Mrs. Eads :)

All of our 60 firsties made themselves.  We displayed them pulling the pumpkin off the vine.  It was a great teamwork activity.  The little person that they used to color came from TPT--What's the Buzz in First.

It was a lot of fun to be a part of and to see the whole grade level participate!

On a different note...our Green Chimps made some cute spiders today.  We used a "Missing Words" powerpoint to practice long a words today.  Students wrote the missing word on a spider leg.  When the powerpoint was complete, the students sorted the words onto the spider body.  Thanks to Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits for the spider idea!  They really enjoyed it!

Happy Friday tomorrow!

Em

Winner and a Hallowicious Day!

First, CONGRATULATIONS to.......

Bren at The Teacher Diaries for winning our first ever giveaway!!!!  Thank you to all who entered and gave me some laughs and pins for my "Makes Me Chuckle" board.  :)



 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Happy Halloween to all our bloggy friends.  I hope your day was as Spooktacular as our day was.  We started out the day reading an AWESOME book my Curious Friend Em had called Pumpkin Heads! by Wendall Minor.   It was SUPER cute and then we made silly pumpkins inspired by this

You can find the post HERE.   Our firsties were SOOOOO excited to make these little guys and I.HEART.THEM! 

 

The process                                          I Love this one!

Our Favorites!  :)

Most of our finished products. Aren't they "Boo"tiful???

 

Next, we moved onto Glow-in-the-Dark, Trick-or-Treating for math facts and words. This was inspired by Kristen Smith at A Day in First Grade. One little guy was so stinkin' cute.  He couldn't get enough of this activity.  He was saying, "Here's one, here's one, here's one" in his high, pitchy firstie voice.  His poor partner couldn't keep up with his glow stick. 

     

                             

Our Firsties searching for words in our writing classroom.

Found one!

Our day ended with our firsties shopping for their Halloween treats.  :) 

 

 

Just going to leave you with these ghouls.  :)  My cheetah, "good" witch, and yes.... sumo wrestler!
Oh.my.  I just realized that tomorrow starts NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YIKES!

Have a Curious November 1st!