Halloween Craziness!!

Halloween is next week... it feels like yesterday was October 1st!  I can't believe it!  The classroom is looking particularly spooky this time of year and I love it :)

We are all Spook-tacular 1st Graders.  They loved making their own ghosts.  Some are on skateboards and some are wearing clothes and jewelry!  So creative and SpOoKy!

 

I saw an idea on Pinterest and really wanted to do it.  I felt a little crazy for thinking of trying it with 6 and 7 year olds.  GLITTER pumpkins.  This is by far my favorite way to decorate pumpkins right now!  I don't like carving them, and we usually paint so I wanted to try something different.  It turns out all we needed was some patience and a little Elmer's Spray Glue and we were good to go!  I think they look like pumpkin shaped Christmas ornaments. And who doesn't love Glitter!!??

 

We teamed up with the 2nd grade class and made a Halloween treat.  Halloween Hands!! Made from gloves, candy corn, pop corn, and a fancy spider ring.  Here is our whole group with their completed hands.

Last but certainly not least-our Eerie Silhouettes for the hallway.  This is such a cute project, definitely one of my favorites.  I took profile pictures of each child, placed a clip art hat on their picture on the computer and printed.  Then we traced, cut them out, and glued to paper that we painted with water colors on.  I keep telling myself to by a cheap witches hat for this project but never remember.  Clip art does just fine!

 

 

 

Happy Haunting!

~Ms. Anglin

October Fun!

October has brought many fun things to our classroom. 
 
We learn about different character traits to be good people through out the year, every month is a new trait.  October was our first month for Character Counts and we learned about Trustworthiness.  We learned that trustworthy people are honest, keep promises, do what they say they will do, and can be trusted to do a job.

We wore blue to celebrate trustworthiness.

 
October 6-11 was Fire Safety Week.  We spent the week talking about fire drills, escape routes, smoke detectors, and firemen.  We ended our week with a field trip to the fire hall.  The firemen taught us about they gear and uniforms.  We also got to see all of the fire and rescue trucks.  We even got to take turns spraying the hose!

Fireman Wayne showing us how they enter a house.



Checking out the Jaws of Life!



Thank you Firemen for everything you do!

 Hope you enjoyed our October fun so far!

~Ms. Anglin



I fell behind on fall!

I can't believe the time has gone by so fast and I haven't posted in forever!!  Here is a little catch up on how our fall has gone.
 
We made some fall trees to hang in the hallway.  We traced our hands and arms and painted them brown.  Then we painted puzzle pieces fall colors and glued them to our tree trunks.
 

 

 



We learned about plants in Science this past chapter.  We "grew" some lima beans in the window.  The side with no water didn't grow but the side with the water did sprout!

 

We also made some flowers for the hallway.  After we constructed them we had to put on the correct labels for the plant parts that we learned about.

 

 

 

In math we practiced Addition and Subtraction using counters.  We had a lot of fun shaking the counters- and chasing them around the room!

 

 

 



 

I hope I didn't miss too much! I'll try to get better about posting :)

 

~Ms. Anglin