This morning we started out our day by reading the book, Yuck Soup, by Joy Cowley. Our learning target was to use our picture clues and to get our mouth ready for the beginning sounds. We had fun reading this book and extending it by thinking of other yucky items that could go into soup. Each of us authored and illustrated our own page which we will put together into a class book. See our book pages below. :-)
We also read a book called, The Pumpkin Patch and learned a bit more about the pumpkin life cycle. Did you know that the pumpkin seeds that farmer's plant are coated with a pink powder to keep underground insects from eating them? We talked about what facts were and recorded interesting ones as we read. We also practiced our comprehension strategy of Check for Understanding as we read.
For our party in the afternoon, we mixed our own batch of Yuck Soup and then shared it with our 4K buddies. It was fun to see each other again, especially in our costumes. While we enjoyed our soup together, we taught them how to play the game, Roll-a-pumpkin.
(Again, sorry about the oversize- many of the embed codes, don't allow me to change the size)