Finger Print Pumpkins

Buddy studied a poem about pumpkins today. To go along with the lesson we made Finger Print Pumpkins.... They lined them all up in a row across the bottom of the page...

Added some scenery...

And then drew on their jack-o-lantern faces...

Well, B-Bop got to draw faces....Buddy's are so globby we will be lucky if they are dry enough in a week to draw on his faces...

THEME IN YELLOW


I spot the hills

With yellow balls in autumn.

I light the prairie cornfields

Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins.

On the last of October

When dusk is fallen

Children join hands

And circle round me

Singing ghost songs

And love to the harvest moon;

I am a jack-o'-lantern

With terrible teeth

And the children know

I am fooling.

-Carl Sandburg

Eating Up Math!

We got out our Bucket Balance to use for our Missing Addends Math lesson today! We started with pennies, then moved to colored math counters, and then moved on to CHOCOLATE CHIPS...

And when there are chocolate chips involved, what Kindergartner can resist joining in??...

I guess it's good that addition and subtraction go hand-in-hand, especially when chocolate chips are involved...

P.S. If you plan on trying this, make sure to wash out your buckets with scalding hot water and soap before adding food to the lesson!