We had the wonderful privilege of being at school on Halloween this year, and we decided to celebrate it by participating in several exciting Halloween themed activities.
We began our day by enjoying a nonfiction and fiction book about pumpkins. First, we read
The Pumpkin Patch and talked about the process of pumpkins being grown in the fields on farms. Then, we enjoyed a silly fiction story called
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever where we watched two mice take care of a pumpkin and win the biggest pumpkin contest! We talked about text features and how nonfiction books contain table of contents, glossaries, and true facts. We discussed how fiction stories are often for entertainment and are full of imagination and opportunities to learn life lessons. Finally, we created our very own pumpkins where we labeled the parts of a pumpkin. We also turned our pumpkin that we got from our Green Meadows Pumpkin Patch field trip into a Jack-o-Lantern. We had a wonderful time with our pumpkin study and hope that you enjoy the pictures from this exciting event!
After that, we took on a STEAM math challenge where we listened to
Ten Timid Ghosts. Then, we were challenged to build a haunted house for our ghost using cubes. We had to work together with our team and come up with a haunted house that could stand by itself and fit our ghost inside. Check out the cool creations that we made in the pictures below. We had SO much fun! :)
Finally, we decided to get a good laugh out of a silly story called,
My Creepy Pair of Underwear. In this story a rabbit is afraid of his glowing underwear and tries to get rid of it, but in the end he realizes that he misses its warm glow and ends up purchasing many pairs to light up his room. We used this story to inspire us to be creative and make our own silly pair of creepy underwear. We took them home to attempt to scare our parents with these silly spooky creations.
