similes, please!

Today, we talked about similes. The girls grasped the concept pretty quickly. We will continue to talk about similes and review them as we go along this year. First, we made an anchor chart and I came up with some examples. I had the girls tell me the 2 things I was comparing in each example. Then, I had them write a simile for a pumpkin. I found this writing paper at Oceans of First Grade Fun!

pumpkin learning stations

Yesterday, I had the girls write sentences with our fall vocabulary word cards.
They also did a long vowel word sort.
And, did a matching game in math.

life cycle of a pumpkin

Today we talked about the life cycle of a pumpkin. I had the girls do this pocket chart activity together.

Then, they put this little craftivity together. I saw this idea at Fabulous in First. Here's the link for the sequencing activity.

This is the life cycle activity we did last year.

pumpkin predictions

Yesterday, I had the kids do a little predicting about pumpkins. I found this great pumpkin prediction recording sheet at First Grade Blue Skies.

Here are their predictions -
Ethan - 4 seeds, float
Ella - 100 seeds, sink
Gracelyn - 20 seeds, sink

Actual finding -
our pumpkin had 298 seeds
pumpkins float


The kids helped clean out the pumpkin. Ethan was a little apprehensive at first, can you tell?


Daddy finished off by carving the pumpkin!

pick a pumpkin {activity}!

It's pumpkin week here at our house! Man, I love fall and all of the activities that go along with this season. Today we started the week off by doing sight word shape writing - reviewing fact families
did a pumpkin prediction activity
abc order
Check back this week and see all of our pumpkin activities!

pumpkins and such

This week we did a lot of pumpkin activities along with our other everyday learning.


life cycle of a pumpkin


pumpkin paper plate craft


dot-to-dot


ABC order (was supposed to be a file folder game, but all the pieces didn't fit in the file folder)


matching number with number word


telling time to the hour


blend ladders


letter P worksheet


copy work

Don't forget to check out the preschool corner for more preschool ideas and activities!