Fall Party Day

We had so much fun on Friday! We celebrated our Fall Party in the afternoon--complete with a donut competition (Ghosts vs. Bats), eating witch's brew, spider hat craft, and pin-the-nose-on-the-jack-o-lantern! However, we didn't wait until the party to have fun... In the morning, we had a school-wide assembly, celebrating students with perfect attendance, Students of the Month, and Character Kids. Then, we dissected plants to identify and label plant parts. We also wrote about How to Carve a Jack-o-Lantern. Of course, in order to do this, we had to actually carve a pumpkin, with the help of Ms. Foster! The kids had so much fun, especially on the "scooping the guts" part. See the video for some highlights of the fun day! Hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween weekend!

How to Carve a Pumpkin

In writing, we are learning about informational writing. Included in information writing is "hw-to" writing. In this type of writing, students teach their reader the steps how to do something. We began this unit by practicing and writing about "How to Carve a Pumpkin." Here are the pictures showing step 2-"Use your hand or a scraper to get all of the seeds and pumpkin out." The students really enjoyed this part.