Halloween everywhere!

Halloween in Kindergarten is the BEST.   We can use it to work on our science (skeletons, bones, bats, owls) our reading (Halloween book buddies and pumpkin sliders), literacy (writing Halloween stories and journal pages), math (counting pumpkin seeds, tallying up candy, counting spider legs) and so much more!

This week we had our Book Buddies come and visit on Wednesday.  We created a collaborative story called Witch's Brew.  Each set of Buddies came up with a poem about what to put into their witch's brew.  Here is one example, "I found a bat, and put it in my vat.  Then I saw a web, and I put it in, and also Ms. Deb."  Not sure what that means, that I ended up in the witch's brew, but I am just hoping it is because I am an easy rhyme with web.  :)   We had lots of fun reading with our buddies in the library, and the kids created edible spiders together too!

We are learning about our bodies and especially about bones this week! We have Mr. Bones, the skeleton visiting in our classroom, and we created our own skeletons out of Q-tips!

In math we are working on seasons, tally marks, and adding and subtracting, doubles addition (Have you heard your kinder sing the Doubles Rap?!), and skip counting!  Here the kids are creating addition and subtraction stories and acting them out with bears.  We also have a life sized number line in our classroom on the floor, where we act out stories by jumping forward or backwards on the number line!

Finally, we had so much fun dressing up this week for Spirit Week! Thank you to all of the families who helped participate in this!  Friday we had an assembly to celebrate the volleyball and basketball teams, and it was so much fun to go in the gym and watch some students v. teacher games.  The kinders had fun cheering as loud as they could!  We even had some students win the prize drawing for participating in dress up days!  Each day they dressed up they got a ticket in the can, and then at the assembly, student council drew out some lucky tickets.  It was a tough life lesson to learn that not everyone wins all the time, but High School students throwing out candy into the audience afterwards seemed to make most of the kinders much happier.  :)