Day 5 Pumpkin Theme

Our last day of our pumpkin theme, not sure what will happen next week.

But I have the weekend to come up with something. 

Today we did LOTS, including science, which was soooo much FUN!

He earned his first Book It Certificate!

Read 25 books for the month of October. 

Putting up the sight words he learned this week! 

Yay! He now knows 20 sight words.

Pumpkin Bubble Science

We used one of those foam carvable pumpkins

from the dollar store.  Cut off the top filled half way

with water and a squirt of dish soap.

Gave him a straw and had him make bubbles.

He was soooo excited about that,

since we don't let him do that with his drinks. hehe

Figured out that the top pops the bubbles.

But the straw doesn't pop them - why?

Will my hand?

Yes!!!

But when my straw is dry it pops bubbles!
So we learned that the following:

- bubbles are made of air
- bubbles have a protective soapy layer
- that protective layer bursts when non-soapy items touch it
- the protective layer does not burst when soapy items touch it

Sight Word Assessment #1

Circled his sight words in a particular color.

"CK" Worksheet Practice
This worksheet has a picture on it, then he has to
build the word, then write it.

Some of the pictures he had a hard time figuring what

the CK word was, but with a little building he got it!

He did a great job!

Finishing up the fruit of the Spirit basket!!!

All Done!!! :)

CVC Word Building
I printed out a bunch of pumpkins and wrote
a bunch of letters on them.  Then just laid them out
to see what words he could build.

He built the following:
CAT
DOG
BIG
DIG
FIG
FOG
LOG
SIT
PIT
HIT

Erupting Pumpkin Science
My little guy LOVES baking soda and vinegar experiments.
So, I had him mix yellow and red food coloring in some vinegar
to see what color he made, orange of course.  Placed some
baking soda in the pumpkin and had him pour the vinegar in.
Made a cool orange explosion!!!

What interesting pumpkin theme activities have you done?

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!

~Bekah

Day 3 Pumpkin Theme

Our pumpkin theme is half over, hard to believe!

Our day 3 activities we did a little more only because

we are taking day 4 as a family day and to get

ready for trick or treaters to come by.

Here is an overview:

Coloring his fruit to cut and paste

into the basket.  Today we learned

about Joy and Peace.

All done!!! 

This is our word family game

with "ck" words!

He picked up pumpkins and then

lined them up on the correct word family line.

Reading his word!

I think this was a little too easy for him though.

I'm going to have to come up with something

more challenging for my learning bud!

Reading all the words!

Yay!!! I did them all!!!

Journal Time in the Writing Center

He draws a picture first of what he wants to

write about.  Then dictates to me what he wants to

say.  I write it on the writing center folder

and he copies it into his journal.

Working hard!

Yay!!! I know the picture doesn't show his journal

very good. :(  But he drew a picture of Mario, Luigi,

and the Toadstools and wrote the following:

"How do you beat the mushrooms? Mario, Luigi and the

toadstools jump on them."

Sight Word Search

Found a new use for our stampers!

He stamped the words he found.

Sight Word Writing Time

Working on the word "look".

He traced the word and then wrote 4 sentences

using the word "look".

Again he told me the sentences and he copied them.

Our number board from Lakeshore Learning.

Working on the number 7.

He had to find the following:

fraction

tally

tens frame

one to one correspondence

All done!

Yay!!!

Tens Frame Pumpkin Worksheets from COAH

Another great use four our stampers,

especially since he still doesn't like to color.

He made his own game with it.

He'd do bullet sounds every time

he stamped, pretending to kill spiders

that wanted to get the pumpkins. LOL

And of course little brother ALWAYS

curious and getting into everything!

 

But he never did get distracted (that's a first)!!!

Come back for Day 5, since Day 4 is Halloween

and we are taking a break! But Day 5 will be full

of science stuff!!! :)

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!

~Bekah

Pumpkin, Fall, Halloween Sensory Bin

Pulled out a sensory bin and laid it on the floor 

and both boys just flocked to it!

My 9 month old got more into it than my 5 year old, but here is a list of things I put in it:
- candy corn
- fall leaves with different textures
- pom pom balls
- foam mini pumpkin die cuts
- foam halloween stickers
- pieces of pumpkin patch ribbon
- 2 small cauldrons i had left from a past oriental trading order

My 5 year old took out the ribbon pieces and the cauldrons.  He made the cauldrons into cannons that fired out ribbons or flares of fire.

My 9 month old just had shaking the pan and listening to the candy corns rattle.  He also loved picking up the pom pom balls and then jiggling his hands in the whole bin.

Overall lots of fun, tons of imaginary play for my oldest and a whole new world experience for my youngest.

Have Fun and Be a Blessing!
~Bekah