Mrs. Carson's Sunny Sea Friends Blog Spot: October Learning

Pick, Pick, Pick A Fat Pumpkin!!

(Tune of "Skip To My Lou")

Pick, pick, pick a fat pumpkin.

October brings the harvest!

Tomatoes, corn and apples too.

We'll have a feast when we are through.

Now I'm hungry, how about you?

October brings the harvest!

A perfectly pumpkin-filled day at Graham's Market last Monday.

*The children have been enjoying this song all month long. It has been such a great time enjoying the harvest of October. Our garden is thriving with herbs and veggies. We have studied all sorts of other fruits and vegetables as well.

Apple Cider and Popcorn! Yum....Thanks Graham's Market!

Yummy new fruits and veggies to taste. Each child chose a special fruit or veggie from Graham's Market to bring back to school and share with friends. We had a picnic outside on our new porch. Some exciting tasty treats included dragon fruit and apple bananas from Hawaii. It was fun to study the different sizes, shapes and seeds of fruits we love and fruits that were new to us.

Our School Garden!

Changing leaves and a few cool breezes have warmed our hearts and October's magic will be all a glow this Wednesday (8:30 am) with a Halloween parade of ghosties and ghouls and a fall festival.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Until then....

Please enjoy these pictures of fun in learning during the fall days of JK.

Bye Bye October....Hello November!

This Thursday we will begin a study of Florida's early people, the Seminole.

Apples, apples, apples!

How do plants drink water? Celery study!

colorful water + celery stalks with multiple "shoots" that suck up liquid like a straw = Colorful learning that gets a beautiful response.

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins!

Our class pumpkin gives back to our garden. The children watched the complete lifecycle of a pumpkin, drawing and dictating about what they saw.

Using pattern blocks to create jack-o-lantern faces and practice the fine motor skill of tracing. Partners later practiced the skill of creating symmetry with one child beginning a face on one side of the pumpkin and the other finishing it to match on the other side.

The children graphed the shapes they used for eyes, noses and mouths to create their jack-o-lanterns then counted up how many of their friends chose the same pieces.

A little boo-tiful bowling game! Have you ever bowled with a pumpkin?? The children were all smiles while enjoying this funtastic game!

Hammering buttons onto pumpkins! What a happy Halloween fine motor activity this was! Yes, they used real nails and hammers to get those colorful buttons to stay.

The children wrote and illustrated their own Halloween pumpkin stories.

What a colorful way to study reactions to the elements. The children learned a lot about how the sun and it's heat effects pumpkins during their time of growth, and after they are harvested and hollowed out. But this experiment took heat and it's effects on this pumpkin to a whole new colorful level. The children peeled and helped glue crayons to the top of a pumpkin. Later, when they applied heat to the crayons they watched them change in a most delightful way. Just watch!