Halloween The Blooper Reel

Thanks to Mrs. Keaser for these extra Halloween party snapshots.  It really was a great party!

Pumpkin Book Reports

We saw some amazing Pumpkin Book Reports completed in this last week at school. Thank you for the effort and creativity put into the Pumpkin characters for the take home portion of the project.

The students have been presenting the story element candy pieces to the class as book reports. The slideshow below shows the 15 students who have presented so far. We will see the remaining pumpkins later this week.

Students have enthusiastically shared about their books and many have convinced others to read their selections.

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By using Cammy, our document camera, to project our reports in front of the room, the whole class can see each candy story element as it is read out loud. The audience was filled with great questions for each book reporter when they were finished.

Great job everyone!

The Guests Included Wolfman!

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Pumpkin Characters

It’s October and that means pumpkins are everywhere!  Let’s take this 

harvest theme and bring it into our class for some reading fun! 

This week we are asking you to complete this  

really different book report together! 

The children will be selecting a book in school to read and use for a study of story elements.   

But there's fun for you at home as well. 

Pick one character from their story and create them on a pumpkin. 

Decorate it, paint it, glue things to it, and just get creative!  

(Please don’t carve it though.) 

Use a small pie size pumpkin; any bigger is hard to carry to school. 

Pumpkins should be brought in to school by Monday, October 31.  They will be shared in class and returned home by Friday, Novermber 4.

Have fun with your child while completing this project.

Here are samples of great book reports from other classrooms:

Pumpkin Glyph Writers

Use this Pumpkin glyph to be a Halloween detective!  The students wrote a main idea and detail-filled Pumpkin fact paragraph and it is now hanging next to a unique Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin glyph that matches each student's answers to the glyph questions.