Popcorn Poem
Harvest of The Month: Popcorn!
At Jefferson we have focused on tomatoes as our September harvest of the month veggie. Now, it's October and we are celebrating Farm to School Month. We have some after school programs that we are hosting that celebrate the apple and popcorn. We harvested our popcorn today. Take a look at our harvest.
With the husks we made corn husk dolls to take home. We are letting our popcorn dry so that we can give them to our teachers to use for our award day fun. We used the book Popcorn for some fun facts. I even included a fun unit at my TPT store and a sheet for you to use if you would like. I used the sheet with my littles in 1st and 2nd grade. Hope you enjoy!
Popcorn Poem
Popcorn Poem
Harvest of the Month...Apples
My Farm to School Friends... this week is apple week here at Jefferson. Our kiddos are learning about apples by doing different science activities. We counted the number of seeds in different types of apples and read an apple book. We also made an apple art project and made a graph of our favorite type of apple. We have an apple farmer coming into our after school program to share facts about apples and what he does for a living, and he is bringing apples to serve in our cafeteria. Here is a sheet that our kids used to make a bulletin board for our lunch room. Have at it.
Toads, Frogs, Polliwogs...
First graders have been working on learning about different groups of animals. We learned about amphibians last week. They love the song we sing and choose to sing it over and over. I had them working on a life cycle sheet to help them understand the metamorphosis and change. Here is our chart and art activity and even the book we used.
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| Great book to use! |
Spooky Science Stations
This year, I am working with an enrichment group of 12 students. They come to the science room for reading, writing, science, and more. I thought I would create some stations for them for the week of Halloween. I found a great A-Z science story about creepy crawlers and then to add to the reading component we are going to do the six stations. We will break it up three per day. I only have them for 35 minutes each day. Check it out at my TPT store.
Our Harvest Gathering
Our school received a Farm To School Grant this year. We have a beautiful courtyard that wasn't getting used, so we added 12 raised beds, 5 mound beds, an herb garden, a strawberry patch and more. This is our second community harvest of the year. We invited our families in to harvest veggies, listen to presentations on safe routes to school, Project Jaguar (our at home reading program), our Public Health Department's nutritionist teaching easy veggie recipes, as well as eating together! We had over 140 people join us to celebrate Farm To School Month. Take a look at our Harvest...
Surviving The Titanic
Our wonderful fifth graders are learning about lifeboats in science through our FOSS science program. To make it a little more lively I handed my students passes with a colored dot on them so that they knew which lifeboat to go to. This was there group they would work with that week. I also showed them a video to reinforce vocabulary such as capacity. I also used a link I am sharing to provide extra information about the Titanic's lifeboats. We then created our control boat to check for capacity. Just making it real. We had a few minutes at the end to make another boat out of aluminum foil. I gave each lifeboat the same size piece of foil and asked them to design a boat that could hold the most passengers. We shall see who's design is more buoyant.
Here is the video I used. The kids were shocked to see that the lifeboats weren't filled to capacity.
Here is link to the facts I used.
And let's not forget the boarding passes.
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