AM K Costumes

This week in library, we read Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise, written by Sean Taylor and illustrated by Jean Jullien, and Monster Needs a Costume, written by Paul Czajak and illustrated by Wendy Grieb. Then the students drew themselves in their Halloween costumes (real or imagined) ... AM kids were actually wearing their trick-or-treating outfits, but a lot of them decided to draw something different.

PM K Costumes

This week in library, we read Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise, written by Sean Taylor and illustrated by Jean Jullien, and Monster Needs a Costume, written by Paul Czajak and illustrated by Wendy Grieb. Then the students drew themselves in their Halloween costumes (real or imagined).

Three of These Things with Room 1

A big part of information literacy is being able to recognize patterns and to categorize facts, sources, etc. We're starting to work on these skills in first grade.

After the students figured out which one thing didn't belong in a collection of objects I had brought in, they each got a card with a colored shape and had to find at least one other person whose card was the same in one way:

The next week, we watched some Sesame Street videos and then the kids worked on their own "Three of these things" artwork. Here are some examples ... can you tell which doesn't belong??

Hint: Look at the eyes!

Those are bats using echolocation (well, three of them are).

Only one of these cats is domesticated!

Three of These Things with Room 4

And here are some of Room 4's creations:

PreK Jack O'Lanterns

Thanks to Nana Judy, PreK had a huge selection of features to use to decorate paper jack o'lanterns after we read pumpkin / Halloween / "spooky" books. Here are some of their creations: