Visual Plans, Pumpkins and Field Trip

I am a little late with my visual plans for this week, but they have changed a few times. This week we were focusing on pumpkins due to our field trip to Hartland Orchard (apples are becoming out of season so they also do pumpkins). Check out Mrs. Will's Visual Plans and link up!

And here are some photos from our field trip and our pumpkin activities...

Here is the summary of our Earth and Space Relationship experiment intro week...we basically talked about the difference between day and night and how the sun heats up the Earth. We never got a chance to do the flashlight activity, so we will be wrapping up that unit next week in our short 3 day week.

And I will leave you with a photo of Addy's preK homework...kind of crazy that this is something that they want her to do, along with 10 other worksheets...and sight words (yea, I said sight words)!

Decorations and Activities

This has been quite the hectic week! But, today is Friday, and school is out and I am looking forward to the weekend (well not my class tomorrow, but the rest). In school today, I finally got some things hung up in the room that I have had laminated and moved around my desk and some tables to make the room more workable. We FINALLY got our students computers today, as well. Our old ones were taken out over the summer and then when the new ones came in, they didn't have Windows 7, so they were shipped back. It has been crazy without them. I like to use them for listening to reading, spellingcity during word work and they are needed for the students to take their Accelerated Reader tests. What else do you use your students computers for? I would love to know!

Now on to why I named this blog post decorations and activities! I have been so down about not being able to do much season/holiday related activities, and I finally realized that I just need to get more creative. There are tons of halloween/fall themed activities out there on Pinterest and TpT, and I found some great ones that I want to share with you.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Costumes-Character-Traits

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Packet-Sample-Freebie

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-ABC-Order-Center-Activity

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Verb-Action

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Synonym-Match-Up-FREEBIE

I also got creative today and decided to decorate my door in a fall theme...check it out!

Then this afternoon, my colleague and I put together our 3rd grade classes and had a blast doing a  food chain activity called Food Chain Hospital, which I got from this life science packet that is WONDERFUL: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Ultimate-Life-Science-Unit/. The kids had a lot of fun and did a great job with the challenge of putting together the puzzle pieces and then putting the food chain in order.

Have a great weekend!! Remember, the people that comment on my blog previous to this one, get a free Daily 5 rotation Powerpoint!