More November Adventures

Fun Run Fun!

 We ran and ran and ran! We all had a good time. 

Then we counted our laps. 

It was a fun day!

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Reed went up north and brought back some fall leaves. 

We had a wonderful time jumping and raking and playing in them!

It was also pj day.

 

 

 Pajamas didn't stop some of us from doing somersaults into the leaf pile:

We got to meet our Artist In Residence, Jim Cogan! 

He came to our room and we helped tell a story called 

"The Three Bighorn Sheep," we did a great job.

We also sang "The Itsy Bitsy Spider Climbed up Piestewa Peak"

Then he picked three students to be actors. Other students whispered an emotion and the student actors had to show us what that looked like.

 Angry

Sad

Cold

Our actors were great!

The next time he came we created pictures to tell the stories he told us.

 We did The Farmer and the Snake and a story about a Mesquite Tree

  

Aristidis brought in six different kinds of apples that we'd never tried before. We learned their names and counted them in different ways before we tasted them.

Today, Monday, we did special rotations to all of the kindergarten classrooms. In our room Mrs. Goshert told us a story about a Wampanoag boy and

we made mishooks (canoes). 

In Mrs. Allen's room we played and made a game called Hub Bub.

In Mrs. Reed's room we made pilgrim dolls called poppets.

In Mrs. Moore's room we made a papoose.

 

We have one more day to learn about Pilgrims and Wampanoags.

Next week we'll spend some time concentrating 

on Folk Tales to celebrate our storyteller. 

Then we'll move on to Europe!

Here comes November!

We started off November with an assembly about our Fun Run Fundraiser!

It was loud and lots of fun.

 

Each morning the ASU students come into our room 

and teach us about healthy habits

It is very exciting!

 

On Friday we had a puppet show. It was The Little Red Hen and we loved it.

First the woman who did the show talked to us about what to expect and how to be a good audience.

After the show she came out and told us about how the puppets worked. 

We have been learning about life cycles. We are lucky to have our amazing gardens to help us. We went outside to look at the stages of 

gourds, squash and pumpkins. We also looked at the bees and butterflies that were busy pollinating the plants.

                                 flower                        flower with a baby under it

              

We will use these photos and more to continue life cycles in our room.

We continue to learn about trees. We went on a discovery walk to look at trees on our school grounds. We smelled them, collected bark and other tree parts and took photos of all of the different trees we found.

  

Our pumpkin that we carved into a jack-o-lantern started out looking like this:

We read a story called Pumpkin Jack 

about a pumpkin that changed after it was carved.

We recorded predictions about what we thought might happen to our pumpkin and then left it alone.

After a few days it started to change. 

It was pretty yucky and smelly (as is evidenced by the plugged noses)

            It got so yucky that we decided to plant it to see what will happen next.

Stay tuned!