Halloween

We had a wonderful week dressing up to celebrate Saying No to Drugs! I forgot to take a lot of pictures but here is one of a few of us being too bright for drugs. 

Today was Halloween and we voted on, measured, weighed, carved etc. all to Wilber our class pumpkin. We found out that although Wilber was heavy he still floated in a bucket of water. We figured that it is because he is actually hollow. To end the day we had some yummy pumpkin cookies.All in all, Mrs. Ketchum said it was the best Halloween she has ever had in Kindergarten. :) 

Wilber the pumpkin

Our voting on how to carve Wilber.

Digging out seeds

More seeds...

And even more seeds...

Finally Wilber has a face!!!

Fun in Kindergarten

This week we learned all about Fire Safety and how to take care of ourselves and our families  in a fire. We also made fire trucks and charted about fire safety. 

Fire safety week

Kylie posing to support fire safety week

We had Open House and many of our parents came out to tour our classroom, see what all we had been learning, and visit our book fair. Here are a few of our families. 

Abbygail and her family. 

Malakhai and his family. 

We finished Chapter one in our Go Math books and moved onto Chapter two. To begin our chapter we played a game with numbers. Here is Jackson beating his partner Mrs. Ketchum. :)

I won!!!

Practicing our name can happen even on the playground. :)

Our class put on the Hayride during the Fall Festival. We had an amazing time. Thanks to the PTO for doing such a marvelous job setting this even up for the school. Did you know that every dollar we earned at teh Fall Festival will directly back into our classroom? 

Even our school mascot rode the Hayride with us. 

Bree riding the hayride. 

Lilly on the hayride.

Apples and Reading Stamina

Alright, I am two weeks behind but they have been two wonderful but very busy  weeks. We met our reading stamina goal and grew our brains by leaps and bounds. This means that the entire class was able to read for 15 minutes. Reading at the beginning of the year in Kindergarten does not always mean reading the words. We begin by reading the pictures and predicting what we think the book is about. We also look for our letters of the week and punctuation marks. We also began our literacy Daily Five block. This is also the time that Ms. Ferguson and myself will pull reading groups. 

Yellow Day picture

Using our classroom tablets during Daily 5

Using our laptops during Daily 5

TAG Readers in use during Daily 5

Going Home :)

Last week we had fun learning all about apples and Johnny Appleseed. On Friday to finish all of our learning we made applesauce and tasted several different kinds of apples to see which one our class liked the best. 

Cutting apples to make apple sauce

Ms. Ferguson leading the apple cutting

More apple cutting

We like the Gala "pink" apples the best!

Our apple sauce was delicious. Here is how we made it. We cut Gala apples into tiny pieces and put them in the crock pot with "real" apple juice and cinnamon (you could use water and sugar instead). We cooked them from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm on low in the crock pot. They smelled so delicious!