Pumpkin Wrap Up!

We have finally finished with our pumpkin activities.  We have used pumpkins to draw, measure, weigh, sort, predict, describe, and more!  And today we used the pumpkins to EAT!

Getting the seeds out

The white pumpkin was white inside.

Getting rid of the pulp

This pumpkin was too hard to cut!!!

The seeds were cleaned...

then dried...

then baked...

then eaten!!!

Yum!!!

This is the pumpkin we used to try and grow a new pumpkin.  The outside of the pumpkin was rotting, but we did get ONE sprout to put into a cup and we will keep watching what happens to the sprout!

Open Parent Meeting

Monday, November 11th
Commons A - 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Any parent with a child at Discovery is welcome to attend the open parent meetings.  In the meetings we will discuss topics relative to Discovery Elementary and continue to strengthen our partnerships.

Food Shelf Drive

It is the time of year for Discovery School's Annual Food Shelf Drive to provide Thanksgiving meals to area families.  The students and staff have always been very generous, and we hope this year will bring great results again!

Wednesday, Nov. 6th was our kick-off.

Children will be decorating Thanksgiving cards to put in each bag.

Food will be collected until November 19th.  We need cans of vegetables and cranberry, packets for making gravy, and boxes of jello.  The K-2 students have the job of counting the contributions each day and keeping a running total.

Grades 3-5 will sort the items into bags along with a card from a Discovery student.

Families that would rather make a cash donation rather than food staples please make checks out to Buffalo Food Shelf.

Can you spell Pomegranate?

This week we are celebrating the letter Pp.  Last night at Cub, they had pomegranates on sale 2 for $5.  So I decided it was a great chance for the Kindies to give it a try!  (A few already had, of course!)

I put the directions for 'cleaning' the pom up on the smart board and demonstrated on my desk top.  We cut open, soaked, and then strained the seeds before snack time.

Opening the pom under water.  Then we needed to pull the pulp out as it floated to the top.

At this point some children were less sure about trying it because of how it looked!

At snack each child was offered 1 - 4 small spoonfuls of the seeds.  The majority of students really liked it!  All but one tried at least one seed!

The seeds we got from two pomegranates.

On the count of three say "pomegranate'!

It was a hit!  And it is so so good for you, too!

(The directions I used for getting the seeds out of the pom were available right by the poms at the grocery store.)

Math-A-Thon

On Friday we had a Face the Facts celebration to end our month long emphasis on math.  All the Kindergarteners were working together with math tools, games, manipulatives, etc.

I am sure if anyone walked in and watched this, they would have thought the kids were only 'playing' but the learning going on was amazing!

Here is a video of them trying to figure out how many Kindergarteners long the tub of unifix cubes would be!

Unifix cubes during Math-A-Thon

And pictures of other activities:

Writing math numbers and stories

Math Books

100's Chart

Building Blocks

Apple Counting Mats

Patterns

Race to 100 Game

Number/Color Patterns

Towers/Engineering

Matching/Measurement

Sorting

Building 

Pattern color Chains and Measurment

Unifix Cubes/Measurement

More Sorting Mats

Math Counter Snake

How many kids will match? Measurement

Creative use of Math Manipulatives

Reading Interpretation

Four of the girls in our class wrote a little play with Shar during snack break.  Shar then took them to the stage, read it to the class a couple of times, and asked them to interpret the story with their actions.

Enjoy!
Kindergarten Reading Interpretation

The 5 C's

At Discovery Elementary we have a community of learners that gets along based on the 5 C's.  They are care, cooperate, contribute, collaborate, and celebrate!

Each month a student from each classroom is chosen for an award based on C word we focus on that month.

The word for September was Care.  Our award went to Kenzie!

The word for October was Cooperate.  Our award went to Garett!

Congratulations to all of the Kindies.  They are working hard every day to learn about and use the 5 C's in their new community at Discovery!