Happy Halloween

We had the most exciting day every!

We started off by reading our very first pen pal letters.

They were great letters and they also sent us some spider rings. How fun! After lunch we got into our costumes and had some fun with dry ice.

Here EN is catching a "boo bubble".

JB got his bubble and it popped right in his hand.
Justin caught one and is about ready to get another one.
Then we went outside and made Halloween screamers!
We put a hex nut inside a balloon and then swirled it. It makes a great sound.

We saw some wonderful costumes today.

This is BB. Is he cute or what?

Then it was time to sample some of this wonderful and FUN food that everyone brought.

AR and her mom made these Frankenstein rice crispy treats.

EN brought in yummy carmel apple slices and LS brought in brownies.

JB and his mom made popcorn balls, mmmm.

We took pictures by the witch's brew for our photo albums.

Then it was time for another experiment.

Here we made a crystal ball and then waited for it to burst and have the fog land on our hands.

Even though this photo isn't in focus, I still really liked the boys faces.

Big Pumpkin Play

The Big Pumpkin play is a tradition in my room. Each year we read the story, make the background, and then dress up to act the story out for our McKay kindergartners and first graders. We had a great time and it was really fun to perform for our friends and families. Here is JD as the ghost.Here is the cast as... "first they pulled hard and then they pulled harder but that pumpkin just SAT!"

"Drat!" said AP.

Here is another group after their performance. I just love to see children working together and having so much fun.

TK made a great bat.

EN as our mummy.
DC as our vampire.

KC was our witch for two of our plays. She did a great job!

Here they are trying to pull the pumpkin off the vine. Looks like good teamwork to me.

Here is our final group of actors for the day. It was a lot of fun watching the children perform.

AG as our witch.

BB as our bat.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Wacky Wednesday

Boy we do "Wacky" good. Look at these crazy boys!

Oh my, the girls are just as WACKY!

Clothes backwards, miss matched, hair as wild as I have ever seen!
This morning we started getting ready for our Halloween party by making pumpkin pie.

It was nice to have AP's mom come in and help. Thank you!

First we put in a vanilla waffer,

Then we added the sugar and spice...

and filled the cups and put them in the oven. Yummm.... we can't wait for Halloween.

Planning For Our Performance

Here are AS and KC busy writing poems that we will be recording and placing on a CD for the basket/art auction.

This afternoon we drew a huge house for the background of our play that we will be performing on Thursday and Friday. Everyone is welcome to come watch. If you are unsure of when your child will be performing, send me an email cschimel@pendleton.k12.or.us and I will let you know.
Everyone is getting along so well, it really is fun to do these kinds of projects together.

After coloring it with color crayons, we put a dark wash over it to make it look like it was dark out.
During reading block a few students finished illustrating their books that they wrote. Here are KS, JB, and SR sharing their story with us. It was a spin off of the Three Little Pigs. It was really cute.

Monster Mixers

This afternoon we went to the computer lab and everyone created a monster at http://www.crayola.com/ Then we colored them and wrote a page to go with it. We will put these into our latest class book.

We also had time to download some of our own personal writing today.

Here TM is printing his story.
This morning we decorated paper bags for McKay Estates.
Children and their parents are invited to trick or treat there on Halloween.
Residents like to see everyone so their dinners are packed in these decorated bags.