October 24

Wednesday!!

During our inquiry into language arts today we learned a new song for Ee!! The song was about cracking eggs and the action was pretending to crack and egg and then opening it in a pan! We practiced the song and sang along with the video. Once we did that we started to brainstorm words that begin with the letter Ee. We were coming up with a bunch of words that have Ee in them... but not words that begin with the letter... We have two friends in our class that have E as the first letter in their name! After this, we wrote in our phonics journals. Some of our friends drew pictures of our friends in our class with the letter E. :)

During UOI we finished up our pumpkin investigation. Each student got to see whether or not their pumpkin sinks or floats. We made an observation and made a hypothesis (educated guess for what is going to happen): Example: "Because my pumpkin is heavy, my pumpkin will sink." Then, we did our experiment. Ms. Gray filled a bucket full of water, and each of us dropped our pumpkin in the water! This was awesome! Some of our friends were disappointed that their educated guess was proven wrong by our experiment... some even started blowing their pumpkin to try to get it to sink! We have some silly friends! :)
We decided that we want to draw a face on our pumpkin for Ms. Gray to carve. We came up with lots of different ideas for which eyes, nose and mouth our pumpkin should have! We talked about how we don't do this during the summer... carving pumpkins and going to a pumpkin patch is an activity that we do during the fall!





During Math we counted by 10's ALL THE WAY TO 490!!!!! We separated our pumpkin seeds into groups of ten, then Ms. Gray drew on the board. We counted by 10's and used a 10 frame for the extra. After we were done with our pumpkin, we made ABBA patterns. We stood in a circle and we snapped and clapped an ABBA pattern. We are going to practice our snapping... Some of our friends made the noise with their mouth instead. After this we got into groups and did centers. We practiced making patterns with manipulatives.


For our journal we reported our results of our experiment. My pumpkin ______ in water. Then we packed up and got ready for Music!

Reminders:

• PICTURE DAY TOMORROW!!! 
• Friday is our October spelling test! (See words on blog)
• Casual Day October 30 (this is a Tuesday!)
• Costume/Character Day October 31! -- Please remember: no scary costumes & no weapons!
• Science Fair is coming up! We are going to do an experiment using the scientific method! -- "What melts ice faster?"