Hi friends. Maybe you remember me? Iām the girl who used to be semi good about blogging here at The First Grade Parade. Is anybody there? Iām convinced no one reads blogs anymoreā¦or maybe just that no one reads this one. Iām sure it doesnāt help when I donāt post for a month :) Living in a small little town means that sometimes you donāt have internet accessā¦for extended periods of timeā¦even when you call your provider and practically beg for them to restore your service. {{Sigh}} So I enjoyed the temporary lapse in blogging. And when Internet service was restored, I kept on enjoying my break. … [Read more...] about Hello? Hello? Is Anybody There?
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Pumpkins EVERYWHERE! And Making Connections
Weāre learning all about pumpkins this week and the kids couldnāt be more thrilled!! I thought Iād share some of the fun weāre having incase youāre knee deep in pumpkin seeds, too! We started the week activating & growing our pumpkin schema. We read a few fun non-fiction pumpkin books, gathered new learning, and added our little fact seeds to our pumpkin chart. Did you know that pumpkins are fruit?! That was a āare-you-for-real?!?!ā moment for the kids. We followed up our new learning with a little apples vs. pumpkins venn diagram. We reinforced a few key vocabulary words {similar, contrast, … [Read more...] about Pumpkins EVERYWHERE! And Making Connections
Pumpkin Day!
Pumpkin Day! What a fun end to a week filled of learning about pumpkins! Luckily, Iām blessed to teach at a school where the parents are really involved and eager to help, and that made our Pumpkin Day run SO smoothly!! I had 4 parent volunteers come in and each parent brought in a pumpkin, spoons, carving knives, a bowl, and paper towels. We covered the tables with orange butcher paper and each parent took a group of 4 kids {which is why I got to walk around and take pics of our fun day!} Each of the kids was given a Pumpkin Math & Science Booklet to complete and the parents did an AWESOME job of working … [Read more...] about Pumpkin Day!
Pumpkin Fun For Everyone!
Such a FUN week!!!Ā I absolutely LOVE this time of year!!!Ā We had a pumpkin themed week and we learned SO much!!Ā We started the week out with a pumpkin shaped KWL that the kids helped me fill out.Ā They are SO into non-fiction and loved helping me fill out the āWhat we Learnedā part of the pumpkin :) {No picsā¦BOO!!} We were working on sequencing this week, so I put a little sequencing activity in the pocket chart & they had to sequence the life cycle of a pumpkin.Ā They loved it!Ā I found the real life pumpkin photos HERE & they matched them to sentences that I typed up on the computer.Ā After they matched the pics to the words … [Read more...] about Pumpkin Fun For Everyone!
