Disguise a Pumpkin

Look how creative and fun my students are :)

Their job was to disguise a pumpkin so you wouldn't know it was a pumpkin! This was a family project and the kids and their families did a fabulous job!

 

the one with the long hair is the character from Tangled :) 

the one with the straggly red hair is apparently a "waiter". haha isn't it obvious?

i was having to hide my laughter.

 

Hello Kitty!

 

Batman!

 

Camo Pumpkin!

 

Pirate!

 

A hot air balloon! So creative.

 

it's a KITTY MISS INHOLT! (as Allie would scream it :)

pictures of my classroom, FINALLY!

I am finally posting pictures of my classroom! Take a look :)

 

my pencil cup :) I made it with my friend Clara in college.

 

A "Pinterest" inspired anchor chart I used to help my students find a "Just Right" book to read during Reader's Workshop!

 

another "Pinterest" project I made to work on spelling color words during centers. the letters were made out of lids of water bottles. i asked my mom to set out a note at her work and SO MANY of her coworkers brought in lids! I still have TONS of them! This folder game cost me NOTHING :)

 

a big view of my classroom (at the end of the day, thus the chairs on the desks).

 

 

where I do most of my teaching

 

calendar area

& a KWL chart on firefighters :)

 

news area. it includes class jobs, the season, newsletter, specials and birthdays.

yes, i know. the apostrophe in the "whats" is missing. it fell off...

 

my messy desk! usually it is pretty clean but I was working on some guided reading projects and it got messy. behind the bookshelf is my wall of students' drawings, calendars, pictures, notes, etc. i also tend to use A LOT of post its! notice the frame of my computer :)

 

my A.M. kiddos giving me a thumbs up and smile. this was used for my "Goldilocks and the Just Right Book" anchor chart for the sentence "I like it!" haha

I will try and post more pictures of things I do or use in my classroom more often!

the pumpkin patch and more.

i survived my first field trip as a kindergarten teacher :) i took all 35 kiddos to Russell Farms. i had help obviously with about 14 parents, thank goodness! i am so blessed to have great parent volunteers for my classroom. i have sooo many who want to help, volunteer, take work home to do, donate materials... it gets tough finding things for them to do sometimes!

the kids had a great time learning about different farm tools, doing "chores" on the farm and picking out their pumpkins. it was the PERFECT fall day as well. almost a little too hot, though.

 

bus trip to russell farms!

 

beautiful yellow mums.

 

two of my PM kiddos working with the little tractors.

putting the corn into the silo

 

sammie excited about cleaning eggs.

 

scooping the straw into the wheelbarrow

 

time for the hayride to the patch

 

cheesin it up on the ride to pick our pumpkins

 

hannah and her pumpkin!

 

pumpkins on the vine

 

the Ava's :)

now that my camera is up and running, i will take some pictures of my classroom this week. 

tim  was here this weekend for a quick 48 hours. we had an amazing time at the zoo, eating pizza king, dinner at weber grill downtown and some shopping.

favorite quote of the weekend, came from a homeless man in the city:

"oh i know why you are with her! she looks like she from hollywood. and i know why you are with him! he look like a linebacker for the colts!"

thank you?? haha :)

44 days until i am in CT for thanksgiving with his family and then NYC for my birthday!

did i mention Tim bought me tickets to see Wicked on Broadway for my birthday???

he is so great and an amazing listener! i told him this back when we first started dating that i would LOVE to see it in NYC. well, he remembered and we are going :)

he's a keeper my friends.