2025 Week 8 and 9 Pumpkins, Bats, and Spiders

 After our workshop day during Fall break, my hubby and I continued our quest to tick off sections backpacking on the Superior Hiking Trail. It is 326 miles from the Wisconsin/Minnesota border all they way across the ridges above Lake Superior, up to the Minnesota/Canadian border.

Get this...we've only 25 miles left! It has taken us 11 years (we'll probably finish next Fall)

 

He goes to be in the forest, I go so I can spend time IN the Lake!

 Home for the weekend is almost always primitive camping near Finland, MN. 

Happy week before Halloween!

Here are a few photos of the short week for MEA break:

We wrapped up Parts Of A Plant by EATING those parts!

Roots,  stem,  leaves, flowers,  fruit,  seeds!

We needed to mix up some orange paint with yellow and red to craft a lovely fingerpainted paper for a cute pumpkin project (see below)

After we ate those tasty plant parts,  the kids did some independent work...

Bonus time!

Here are those cutie patootie pumpkins!

We've a few new learning stations around the room!

Social Studies this week was a quick lesson on Rules for Home and School...

On Tuesday our letter snack was Twizzlers for the letter Tt

We set out some new legos:

Choice time!

These are our Reading Language Arts boards!

On Tuesday our lesson was the -at family!

What fun!

Of course -at family hats were a nice project!

We do many whole group games and puzzles...

Wednesday's centers included:

Station 1

Bat and spider playdough...

  

Station 2

Halloween pattern blocks...

Station 3

Spider web painting

Station 4

bdgpq spider sorting 

Oh this looks like fun!

The kids have been beading bracelets and necklaces and creating "maracas"

I've got so many great helpers!

On Thursday morning the kids designed a spider for our mini science unit about arachnids...

We also sang "There's a Spider on the Floor"

We finished up our spider website, too!

And now for the week of October 27-30...

Reading Language Arts:

Letters:  Ss and Bb

Tricky Word: 'as'

Grammar: Sentence structure with ending punctuation and beginning letter capitalized

Math: Comparing numbers to 10

Social Studies: Cardinal LA C.A.R.E.S. 

Acceptance

Science: our skeleton

Theme: Halloween!

Big New:

No School on Friday,  October 31

Teacher's End of the Quarter Workshop

Please see Friday's note about costumes and treats for Thursday's Halloween celebration

Also there is a map to my home if you and your little one would like to Trick or Treat out our way (just a mile and half north of Kwik Trip) on Friday from 4 to 7