It's been a busy week of October festivities in K/1! We kicked off the week with a "walking story". Madame posted pages of a Fall story all around the schoolyard and we walked from one page to the other as she told the story. We had fun trying to find the next pages! ...even if some of them had fallen into the leaves by the time we got to them. After "reading" the story, we got together with our classroom Big Buddies/Little Buddies and each picked a tree to adopt. We encouraged our trees by telling them that winter is coming and their leaves are going to fall off... C'est difficile. Mais tu PEUX le faire! Even when things are difficult, we keep pushing through. We will continue to visit our "amis arbres" (tree friends) throughout the year to check on them and encourage them as they go through tough times. (A moment of silence, if you please...) After whispering sweet words of encouragement to our trees, we decided to fully embrace their gift of fallen leaves... Our "walking story" was all about finding fall leaves, making piles, jumping in the piles, making forts in the leaves, etc. So we felt it was only fitting that we live out the pages of the story. After using pumpkins last week with our Grade 6/7 buddies for our Science lessons, we had 4 pumpkins just hanging out in our classroom. That was way too much unharnessed potential. We decided to open them up and carve them out. And on that note, Madame is hoping that someone can explain to her how "slime" became a multi-million dollar industry when us kids have trouble putting our hands into a pumpkin without getting grossed out. (Or perhaps it was just the lure of playing with the centre toys instead of getting our hands messy...) Madame invited all of us to help carve our class pumpkins but most of us only lasted a minute or two. Meya was the reigning champ for stamina. We peeled and cut up two of the pumpkins to turn into purée for making pumpkin cheesecake muffins. The other two were saved for carving jack 'o lanterns. We used our Math concepts to carve our jack 'o lanterns. After reviewing the names of our French shapes, we took turns giving Madame suggestions of which shapes we should use for each part of the jack 'o lanterns' faces. Then Madame drew them and we cut them out. Of course, we couldn't let good pumpkin seeds go to waste! So we roasted them with salt and butter! Yummy! We also had lots of fun making the pumpkin cheesecake muffins! Almost all of us got a turn either adding an ingredient, stirring, using the handheld mixer, greasing the muffin pans (because Madame forgot her muffin cups in the car), or scooping the batter into the muffin tins. The muffins turned out oh, so delicious! And that smell! Mmmm... Too bad the week was so crazy and we didn't manage to make the muffins until Halloween...when we had lots of other amazing treats! We ended up with a lot of left over muffins. (Madame wasn't too disappointed to take some home). Thanks to the amazing parents and grandparents that provided yummy treats for our Halloween party!! For Halloween, we also enjoyed showing off our costumes and admiring all of the kids' costumes in our school-wide Halloween parade. And we got to see our Grade 6/7 Big Buddies perform a bunch of Halloween dances in the gym! Another special treat this week was "spooky Halloween juice". Madame brought in some dry ice and we made scientific hypotheses about what would happen when she put the dry ice into the juice. Some of us thought it would EXPLODE! Others thought it would bubble. We were very excited when smoke came billowing out of the blood-red juice. Oh, and we also did some reading, writing and arithmetic this week! ;-) Happy Halloween, everyone!
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