The Biggest Pumpkin Ever!

This morning we practiced stringing beads on pipe cleaners. The kids concentrated very hard to line up the bead hole with the pipe cleaner. The goal was to fill the entire pipe cleaner with beads!

During morning circle we talked about the calendar. We practiced reading the days of the week and months of the year out of order. We also continued our pattern. The kids were very excited to count down how many days until Halloween....only 3 more days! We practiced our everyday words and the Sounds Around Town. Our new sound brother pair today was "fat air." The /sh, zh/ sounds are make when we push our lips out and blow fat air. The kids enjoyed practicing the new sound.

Our story today was 'The Biggest Pumpkin Ever" by Steven Kroll. In the story two mice fell in love with the same pumpkin. Desmond the field mouse wanted to carve the biggest jack-o'-lantern in the neighborhood with his pumpkin. Clayton the house mouse wanted to win the Biggest Pumpkin contest with his. The mice find out they are in love with the same pumpkin. So Desmond and Clayton decide to work together to grow the biggest pumpkin ever! After reading the story we filled out a chart to describe what a pumpkin is, what it has and what we can do with a pumpkin.

For art the kids made a big pumpkin. To make the pumpkin big and fat we had to stuff it with paper. Once it was nice and round the kids used a green pipe cleaner to make a vine. The kids then painted the pumpkin orange...leaving the top brown for the stem. When we put all the pumpkins together to dry we made a pumpkin patch!

For writing/fine motor centers the kids practiced writing their first and last name, writing the letter B, using a hammer and nails to make a pumpkin and writing sight words on the iPad. After lunch we sang pumpkin and Halloween songs.