Some good stuff

This is some of the good stuff that's been happening with my class....

These turned out so cool! I had the kids gather some leaves - and I did too for this little friends who just didn't for whatever reason. Then they painted the vein side and carefully pressed them down on white paper. {Here's more about the process.} Some of them just looked amazing. The next day, I had them write on a postcard about them. Some wrote about the process, and some wrote about what they looked like. This turned out so much better than the first time I did it several years ago. Does that mean I'm getting better at giving instructions???? LOL 
When they got done with both pieces, I glued them onto brown paper and hung them in the hall - just in time for Parent/Teacher Conferences - and what's better than having pretties with some writing hanging in the hall for parents to see!!! 
OK, the only thing better is to remember to take pictures -- obviously right after I took them down and just before they went home. Phew!

This fun little project was a pumpkin version of our spiders. We had studied consonant digraphs - so I paired up students and they had to make a list of at least -- I don't remember, maybe 6 or 8 words with their digraph. Some of them even got to look in a dictionary. They had to give me the list so I could check for spelling. Then their digraph went in the middle of the pumpkin, with the words around it. They could decorate it if they wanted. 

We are enjoying our last couple days of Indian summer, before winter's coldness is suppose to bare down on us. I just got my husband to help pick the last of the tomatoes and clean up the garden. Glad that job is done. We're at 72 right now, with highs on Tuesday of 38, and Wednesday and Thursday around 30. Brrrr. So do you have guidelines at your school on how cold before you can't/shouldn't go out to recess? It's up to the teacher at my school, so I was just wondering. 

Happy weekend!