It has been FAR too long since I've posted about the happenings in our classroom! October was such a busy, busy month for all of us. Let me recap the activities, learning and fun that has been happening. I also created a slideshow of all our photos from October for you to take a look through!
October brought learning about leaves, pumpkins, bats and season changes.
To begin the month, we watched the leaves on the trees change color and begin to fall to the ground. In science, we talked about the season changing to fall and how that changes our weather, the temperature (because weather and temperature aren't the same thing!), and how the animals and plants in our environment change, too. We then created our own Leaf Creatures after reading the book,
Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert.
We then moved to pumpkins and talked about the life cycle of a pumpkin. We created our own pumpkins that, as you pulled out the ribbon from the inside, showed the many steps of a pumpkin's life from being a seed that gets planted to an orange pumpkin ready for picking.
To make our pumpkin learning fun, because what's better than fun?, we read the book
Spookly the Square Pumpkin. In this book, a pumpkin, Spookly, saves the day with his square shape during a terrible storm. To tie in math and literacy, we created our own pumpkin patch with all different colors, shapes and sizes!
At the end of the month, we looked at bats, what we knew about bats, and then what we learned about bats. Bats are an animal that hibernates through the winter, which has begun our discovery and learning about animal that hibernate and those that migrate to tie in with our weather and season study in science.
I hope you made it through to the end of this post - sorry for so much writing, I try NEVER to have this much before a photo! Thanks for sticking with me and I promise to post about our thankful Thanksgiving learning soon!
October Classroom Activities 2016 by
Slidely Slideshow
