Bats and Spiders and Pumpkins Oh My!

This week we studied bats and spiders and also did more fun pumpkin activities.

Our sight word this week is "the". After reading and singing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider", the students made their own houses and spouts that the spider could crawl up! Mean while they practiced writing our site word "the" 8 times!

Hooray for our first vowel "a"! We learned how to build short a words. We learned about the "an" word family and the "at" word family by building many words.

After much practice building words, we transferred our learning onto this spider! This is our "an"/ "at" spider. Each set of legs has words that belong to the "an" or "at" word family.

We have read many informational books, watched many informational videos and read the classic fictional story of Stellaluna this week. The students made their own informational text about bats. 

We made cute, little clothespin bats.

We read an informational text about spiders and students made their own book by comparing their own bodies with the bodies of spiders. They also discovered that our site word "have" is in every page!

We practiced our site words "have" and "can" in this class book.  Students made their own pumpkins and cut out their own choice of eyes and phonetically spelled what they created. This student wrote " But I want the pumpkin with the circle eyes". He did an excellent job spelling "circle" phonetically!

Our adorable pumpkin faces were so much fun to create! We mixed yellow and orange paint to give the pumpkin a nice texture. We also mixed green and yellow to give the stem and leaves texture as well. The students designed the entire pumpkin on their own. Each pumpkin is so unique and special, just like our students!