Scarecrow Day!

 Scarecrow Day was soooo much fun!  We had a parade so we could show off our cute costumes. We did a directed drawing lesson and wrote scarecrow stories.  We made words from the letters in "scarecrow" and we sequenced the things the old lady saw in The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything. And our favorite thing was decorating cookies to look like scarecrows! Don't we look adorable in our costumes?!!!

Here are our yummy cookies:

  

Happy Scarecrow Day Everyone!!!!!

 

We Love Veggies!!!!!

Today we had our veggie taste test.  Many of our parents think alike, so we had six types of veggies to try: cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, celery, red peppers and jicama.  We made a graph of our favorites and the vegetable that had the most votes was the tomato.  Here are a few pictures of us tasting our veggies:

Apple Day!

To celebrate the birthday of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) we had a day full of apple fun!  We learned about the legend of Johnny Appleseed by reading our Social Studies big book, a little book about Johnny and we watched a short movie about Johnny.  We made a flow map about his life and we drew on our pot hats (Johnny is said to have worn a pot on his head).  We read an apple poem and put it in our poetry journals and illustrated it.  Ask your child the answer to this riddle: What is red, has no door, no windows a chimney on top and a star inside? 

We discussed oxidation and how an apple turns brown when exposed to oxygen in the air.  We estimated and graphed our apples.  We learned how to measure the circumference of our apples and we weighed them on balance scales.  And, of course, the best part was getting to taste the red, green and yellow apples and sampling caramel dip.  YUM!  Whew, it was a busy day but a fantastic one.  I even had a couple of children thank me for planning such fun activities!  What nice manners your sweeties have!