Monday, November 3, 2014

P is for Pumpkin

So one part of my teaching philosophy is that I don't do "letter of the day" - in the tradidtional sense anyway.  We for sure have letters all around us that we are always talking about and learning.  And we often focus on a letter for a day or a week - but it is very meaningful and concreat. 

Well P - for pumpkin is increadibly meaningful and concreate.  We spent all week finding out what we can do with a pumpkin using P.

But first we had to explore a pumpkin - I brought one into our curcle time and we passed it around , felt it, talked about it, and learned a lot of words to describe it. 

Then we learned about the letter P.  I gave them a tin with a lot of letters, they picked out all the letter P's.  Then we wrote the letter P.





Stay tuned to see all of our P's for pumpkins!

(spoiler alert: Painting, Poking, Pounding, Play Dough, Pouring, Pie, Patch, etc)

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