Katie - the BV County Naturalist came to visit with our class about spiders. She highlighted a lot of the information that we had already talked about with the differences between spiders and insects. As always, the kids really enjoy their time with Katie.
We took some time this week to work in some cooperative groups. We talked about how each group must work together as a team - with one person not being in charge, but with each person having an important role in the group. It was easy to see which groups worked well together and which were struggling with power-struggles or inactive team members. Working together cooperatively is a life-skill that we will work on DAILY this year.
The week of October 22 was a very busy one with parent-teacher conferences. Thanks to all of the parents for their prompt attendance. It was great to get your input and to be able to showcase the things your child has been working on.
Jeremy's family brought in several pumpkins for our class, so we chose to decorate 2 of the pumpkins and take them to the Newell Good Samaritan Center for the residents to enjoy. We had fun painting them - and yes, somehow the Iowa Hawkeyes even made it onto one of the pumpkins! :)
Mrs. Juilfs did a pumpkin Scholastic News with the group that wasn't painting pumpkins |
We spent the afternoon today carving pumpkins. Many thanks to Jeremy's family for providing extra pumpkins for our class. We were able to get one pumpkin at our visit to the pumpkin patch, but thanks to Jeremy's family, we had an extra one to carve! We saved the pumpkin seeds and look forward to having them as a snack in a couple of days.
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