Just a little more Halloween….

 

No holiday is complete in kindergarten without a celebration!  Our Halloween party was lots of fun for the kinders, thanks to the many parents who stepped up and helped out with snacks, crafts, games, supplies, and help!

 

One of our party games was pumpkin bowling!  The children used a pumpkin as their bowling ball, and knocked over toilet paper stacks, cleverly disguised as ghosts.  In this picture, it looks like Macen got carried away and lost his head!

A few of our creative parents planned these awesome crafts…a bat and a scarecrow!

   

No party is complete without a snack!  The children had plenty to eat (and take home!)

And no blog is complete without a picture of Daisy the Wonderdog.  She didn’t get to come to the Halloween celebration, but isn’t she cute?

Check back soon for more updates!  (And maybe a new picture of Daisy!)

Halloween?

 

  

Yes, Halloween.  Today as we were making our advent wreaths at school I found myself thinking, “I can’t wait to put some of our advent activities on the blog!”  But I suppose before I begin posting advent and Christmas fun, I should finish up Halloween.  And start Thanksgiving.  And add a few things in between.   Get set for a few days of catch up blogging!

One of my favorite Halloween activities is our “Mr. Funnybones” writing activity.  We begin by making a predictable chart about Mr. Funnybones, a skeleton, and how he can move.  Here is part of our chart.

The children spend some time being “sentence builders,” putting sentences from the chart in order.

Then they put their own sentences in order on paper.

 

And finally, they build their own “Mr. Funnybones.”  These always turn out so cute!  The body and head are printables from an old issue of mailbox magazine, and their bones are made from Q-tips.

 

Thanks for checking out our Halloween fun!  Check back tomorrow for more catching up!

Mrs. Minton

 

Some spooky fun in KA!

We’ve been getting ready for Halloween in kindergarten with lots of great and slightly spooky ideas!

Yesterday, we had a great snack sent in that really set the mood…spiders!  They were a hit!

Each afternoon, the children spend some time completing stations.   This week, our stations have a Halloween twist!  Here are a few of them…

These girls are practicing fine motor skills, using Q-tips on the overhead to make haunted houses. 

 

 

More fine motor practice at this station, where children use black and green play-doh to make a face on our classroom pumpkin.  This pumpkin will be decorated next week for our school pumpkin decorating contest.  You’ll have to check back to see what we decide to do!

 

 

 

At the writing station, children are making books filled with Halloween words!

 

 

This kindergarten friend just read his favorite Halloween book at the classroom library, and is filling out an “I ready a Spooky book!” sheet to add to our library wall.  He printed the name of the book, and drew his favorite part.

 

 

 

At the listening station, children listened to this story, and then filled out a response sheet to tell us whether they liked it or not.

 

 

At the creation station, this little one follows direction cards to create her own pumpkin to add to our pumpkin patch that is “growing” on the door.

We hope you had a “boo-tiful” time seeing a few of our stations for the week!

 

 

 

Orchard Fun

 

After spending a few weeks learning about pumpkins and apples in kindergarten, we took a trip to a local orchard.  It was our first field trip of the year, and it was a success! 

Before we left the school, the children worked on a predictable reader about their trip.

(My teacher friends can download this book for FREE at my TPT store!)

And then we were off!

 

We arrived and were educated about this year’s apple crop.  This year’s severe weather damaged the apple crop at the orchard and there was no apple picking, but we were able to taste some yummy apple slices, and then continue on our apple tour.

The children saw the apple sorting facility, the giant refrigerator, and learned about how bees help the apples to grow.

 

Next stop: hayride out to the pumpkin patch!  The children rode the tractor pulled wagon to the pumpkin patch to pick their perfect pumpkins. 

 

 

Time for a picnic lunch inside the greenhouse!

And last, playtime in the orchard play area before we headed back to the city.

Apple Fun!

We’ve been gearing up for our fall field trip to the apple orchard.  Last week, the class spent some time with some fun apple activities.  Here are just a few of the many activities we took part in during the week!

We started the week listening to the story “The Little Red House with No Windows and No Door and a STAR Inside!”  (You can find lots of versions online of this cute story.)  When the story was over, I cut open our apple and there was a star inside!  I wish I would have gotten a picture of the amazed little faces! 

Our predictable chart this week was about apples.  The children each dictated a sentence about the apple that they like best, and I wrote them down.  We spent some time reading our “Apple Story” in a variety of ways during the week, and on Friday we turned it into a class book.

We had lots of apple juice at snack time during the week!

 

We enjoyed a baking day where we practiced following oral directions while we made mini apple “pies.”   First, the children flattened out a refrigerator biscuit.  Then we placed a scoop of apple pie filling on the biscuit, and added another flattened biscuit to the top.  We sealed the edges by pinching with our fingers, and sprinkled generously with sugar. 

The mini apple pies baked in a 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes.

And while they baked, the children waited. 

 

Finally, the mini apple pies were done!  They smelled delicious!

And they tasted great, too!

 

Blessings,

Teresa