Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere

This week in our class we investigated pumpkins.

We learned about the life-cycle of a pumpkin, learned about  it's parts, and explored real pumpkins.

Here are some pictures from the week:

My collection of pumpkin books

We first did sink/float experiments.

And wrote in our journals.

Then we measured how tall our pumpkins were.

And compared lengths.

Then we weighed our pumpkins.

And counted how many ribs each pumpkin had.

We measured the circumference of each pumpkin.

 The next day it was time to get dirty. 

 Each table counted how many seeds were in their pumpkin.

 I saw this idea from Babbling Abby and it helped my kids so much!

They put 10 seeds in each circle,so we only had to count by 10s! Genius!

We made a flow chart to explain the life cycle of a pumpkin.

 And turned it into writing.

 Then the kids labeled the parts of a pumpkin and wrote their own descriptions of the life cycle.

 Today we voted on how to carve one of the pumpkins.

 This is what they voted on.

 And worked more in our pumpkin journals.

It was a busy, but fun week!

Frogs and Mummies

It's been awhile since I blogged about my first graders!

Last week our Harcourt anthology story was called, "All about frogs".  So I tied it in with writing by  having the kids write informational reports. I love it and it is always a favorite of the kiddos.

Here are some photos of what we did:

We also read "Where's My Mummy" and did a great activity I stole from another blog. The kids made mummies and wrote about what their mommies do to help them when they are scared. Such a great idea! Thanks to the sweet blogger who shared the idea!

Our Halloween

I hope that you all had a great halloween!

I have had so much fun looking through all of  your pictures.

I took off the day from work so that I could join Reagan for his class party.

It is always so fun to see him interacting with his little friends.

 Reagan and his 2 sweet teachers.

 Miss Monica reading a story before the party.

 The kids loved Reagan's light up Buzz.

 Before they ate, the kids all prayed.

It was seriously the sweetest thing ever.

 Look at his little clasped hands. I could melt.

 Time to eat!

After the kids ate they had a parade around the school. Too cute!

 With my sweet boy.

That night we went Trick or Treating around the neighborhood.  Reagan got really into it this year! He walked for about 3 blocks and kept saying "More doors!" Then we came back to pass out candy.

Haha.. and then wanted to be carried!

Oh, since you're here.... Buzz is requesting that you please keep his mommy in the running for a Top Mommy/Teacher blog. Please vote here!