Reminder: Today we are bringing home a notice about the Halloween Dance and about Family Literacy night.

Today we finished writing sensory descriptive words from our class generated word bank about pumpkins on our Sobey’s contest pumpkin. We decided that since we have been working so much on our fall senses and our fall poem that we would carve leaves into our pumpkin as well. It will be picked up tomorrow October 21^st and displayed at the Royal Oak Sobey’s until Halloween,

Today we continued to work on building descriptive sentences about a pumpkin. Ask me what the pumpkin looked like. What shape was it? What colour? How did it feel when I touched it? What did I notice about the surface of the pumpkin? What did I imagine or wonder about the pumpkin?

Below is a list of activities to do at home with a pumpkin! Many of these activities are rich with learning opportunities. Have Fun!

Science/Social Studies

http://kidworldcitizen.org/2013/10/07/using-pumpkins-learning-every-subject/

http://jess-thecreativeclassroom.blogspot.ca/2010/06/geography.html

http://earlycorelearning.com/the-best-pumpkin-videos-for-your-classroom/

Math

http://ourjourneywestward.com/pumpkin-school/

http://www.prekinders.com/mini-pumpkin-math/

http://mathgeekmama.com/pumpkin-seed-estimation-and-counting/

http://mathgeekmama.com/pumpkin-seed-estimation-and-counting/

Today we read Chapter 3 of Book Three: Keeley and The Mountain.  Ask me what happened in Frank Alberta.  Ask me what I’m worried about from the book?

Today we watched a video about sinking and floating. We talked about some important scientific words like hypothesis, test, observe and experiment.  Ask me what these words mean? We are excited to begin learning about Boats and Buoyancy in science.  Please watch the video below with me all about how to do an experiment about floating and sinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_449837&feature=iv&src_vid=cECicd09J34&v=UjQ4OwolarI