Halloween Fun

Just treats...no tricks in our kindergarten group!

We are so lucky to have so many great resources available in our school and classroom.  Each week our kindergartners see many adults come and go in our classroom. From the school nurse to the reading and the behavioral specialists, lots of people help to make our classroom a special place.  The children become so familiar with other building staff that they usually ask if they get a turn to visit their office or classroom.  This week we had our visitors run a math game while in the classroom.

Mr. Montano, our behavior specialist lends a hand during a math group.

Mrs. Earley, our speech pathology assistant helps run a math game too.

Halloween is the perfect time for some fun pumpkin math.  In our All Around the Pumpkin book, students were introduced to the concept of estimation and reading graphs.

Before carving our class pumpkin, we voted on what
 kind of face it should have.

We estimated how much our class pumpkin weighed.

Our school nurse, Mrs. Conley weighs our pumpkin
so we could see how close our estimates were.

Once we estimated the weight and circumference of
our pumpkin, we scooped out the insides.

We saved all of the seeds to plant pumpkins this spring.

We had a blast celebrating Halloween on Friday with a parade and a school wide snack. Students loved showing off their costumes. Check out pictures from the special day below.