Pumpkins, Fall, and a picture explosion!

Hello everyone!

Hope everyone is doing good.  We just had Open House at our school last week.  It was such a success.  The whole thing was student directed and everyone loved it.  The kids guided the parents through a scavenger hunt throughout the room and then showed them our fabulous hallway.  Our amazing first grade team and the kids did the story book pumpkins again this year and the whole school was in awe of the pumpkins.  Enough talking here are some pics for you to look at.  Hope you enjoy!

This is the first grade hallway.   Our first grade team consists of 6 teachers.  Two classes buddied up and studied something different for fall.  Angie and I did scarecrows, another class did owls and squirrels, and the other team did bats.  Our amazing classroom parents worked very hard to put our fall harvest hallway together.  Sorry for the quality of the pictures but I took them on my phone.  

First Grade is Unbe'leaf'able (All the kids in first grade got a leaf to decorate as they wanted)

                                    
                                     
                                        

These are all our different bulletin boards.  Im sure you will recognize some of the craftivities from the blogging world.  

The kids wrote riddle of themselves and parents had to guess who they were.  Their pictures were underneath.

Now drumroll please...  Here are our amazing pumpkins.

 

                          Cinderella                                                    Clifford

                                               
                                                      The Cat in the Hat and Spiderman

                                                               Go Dog Go, Pout Pout Fish  

                                          
                                                                Tangled and Pokemon
                                           
                                                             No David and Fly Guy

       

The witch from The Night Before Halloween

  

 

 Ferninand the Bull

 

 Pinnochio (The head is a pumpkin, the feet, and even the fish.  It was amazing!)

  

Snoopy

The Very Busy Spider

The Octopus from Commotion in the Ocean

Five Spooky Ghosts Playing Tricks at School

Parts, Lego City, and I am not sure about the little one I know its a bat though.  

There were tons more pumpkins but I couldn't take a picture of all of them.  Literally our whole hallway was lined with pumpkins!  We had a great turn out this year.  Seems like every year we are getting better.  

Thank you for sticking through my long post and I hope you enjoyed.

Cindy

Pumpkins Pumpkins Everywhere!

Wow! These few weeks have been very hectic. We have been working on apples, plants, Columbus's day, pumpkins, and we had to get ready for open house on top of that. It has been really hectic and I feel like I have neglected our poor little blog.

Well I wanted to share these really cute pumpkins my students did for open house. One of my teamates found a cute unit online where the students chose a favorite character and they transform their pumpkin into it. I am not going to lie I was a little worried at first because it was our first year doing it and I didn't know how many families would really get creative. I guess I was worried because all the first grade team was doing it and I was worried that my class would be looking like a hot mess. HA!

Well let me tell you I was pleasantly surprised. The students and parents did an awesome job. The pumpkins came out super cute and the students were able to write about their character so it was perfect for Open House. The whole first grade team had the pumpkins lining the hallway for Open House. It was a big hit with everyone. I do not know how many compliments we received from different families and teachers.

Here are a few pictures so that you can judge for yourself.

SkippyJonJones

Chicken Little

Fancy Nancy and Penguin (something? I forgot the title)

Thomas the Train, Oscar the Grouch and David