Fall Fest
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We had an incredible fall fest day today! Some of the festivities included:
Admiring costumes
Playing outside in our costumes
Painting pumpkins
Celebrating Willow’s birthday
Baking and eating pumpkin muffins
Reading lots of fall books
Watching Room on a Broom
Fall picnic on campus
Afternoon centers with Sea Lions that included making slime, hand painting (instead of face painting), fall mandalas, Art Hub guided drawing, and building.
In other news, students worked hard on their tie dye art this week. Rubber banding tee shirts is tricky business for first and second graders ( especially without parent volunteers)! We will be posting tie dye photos on the blog early next week. We continued finger knitting this week too. We received an email from Carter's grandma with additional photos she took and we continued to discuss what makes a good photo. In math we learned to play Make Ten Memory (or Make 14 Memory) and have been practicing our mental math skills. We started doing number talks and dot card talks to discuss different mathematical ways of seeing and solving a problem. We also worked on solving story problems. We watched a math video called Our Brains Think Visually. During writing workshop we reflected on our needs as writers and then we got new writing spots. Six kids published new stories and we've been using our publishing checklists to polish up our books and check our writing conventions. We wrote birthday letters to Willow too. We finished reading our Upside Down Magic chapter book this week and also got to see a Whale play called The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. We continued to look for ways to fill each others' buckets and be kind community members. We also continued to admire the fall beauty that surrounds us each day.
