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Growing Kinders

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Kim Adsit

Deanna Jump

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Did you find my monster freebie?  It’s a big one! Come back and tell me what you think of it!

Here is another freebie for you!

Laurie, one of my sweet readers, asked me to make some labels  for her Zero the Hero book! She is copying the pages and putting them in a 3-prong folder.  Here are the labels I made for her (Avery 5163)

And another set if you want some that are a bit bigger.  (You’ll have to cut these out and glue them on though!)

 

Don’t have a Zero the Hero pack yet?  Find it {HERE}

50th Day of School!

Despite not having a voice for the past 2 days, we had a great 50th day of school yesterday! The children came dressed in their 50s attire ready to Rock and Roll!!

We started the day making 50s records - not all of them knew what a record was but they had fun making them!

We played race to 50 and had a bubble gum blowing contest.

We practiced making tallies to 50 and writing numbers to 50.

And of course some patterning 50s style.

Zero the Hero books:

Self-portraits on the 50th day:

We watched a You-Tube video on how kids danced in the 50s and had our own sock hop! Then we ended the day with root beer floats! The kids sure had a blast!!  But, I was one tired teacher!! :)

Pumpkin Jack

If you don't own the book, Pumpkin Jack yet, you need to order it for next year! It's such a great book explaining the life cycle of a pumpkin, and you could do a fun experiment with it too!

 

Deanna Jump has created an amazing science packet that includes an activity based on the book, Pumpkin Jack.  In volume 1, there are many other activities that follow the fall seasons.  You can find it here. The kids watch Jack every day, and we will add an entry in our science notebooks every week showing how Jack is decomposing. 

 (If anyone knows how to rotate images in blogger, please leave a comment! It is frustrating me to no end! The photo is portrait in iphoto, but imports landscape! argh!)

 Last year, I did just the crafty pages of the Zero the Hero books.  This year, I added an "All About the Number ___" page.  The kids write the number, the number word, tally marks, draw that many objects in 10 frames, and for 30 stamped 30 cents.  This was one of our math centers a few weeks ago.

 This math center is super easy to create, and came from my friend, Leslie.  She's not blogging yet, but she should - she always has great ideas!

 After we went to the pumpkin patch, the children did their pumpkin investigations.  It was super fun! The idea for this sheet came from Mrs. Lee.

 For a fun activity learning about adjectives, we all looked very carefully at our pumpkins and came up with words to describe them.  We only did the outside this year - next year I'll have to remember to do this activity when we open up the pumpkin! There are a whole new set of words to go with the inside ;)

 We charted the words, and then wrote pumpkin poems.

 This is the science center - I set out a variety of pumpkins and gourds for the children to explore and measure.  Pumpkin Jack sits here as well too.  I noticed yesterday he is just starting to mold -- the children will be very excited to see that on Monday!

Tomorrow I will post pictures from our Monster activities and Halloween! Friday was such a crazy day that I forgot to take pictures!