On October 7, 2010, classrooms participating in Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign came together and read The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats to create the largest shared reading experience in history! A record breaking 2,057,513 children the story on that day!
Here the children made sheep with wool using recycled pillow stuffing. They also finger painted spots onto the cows and mud onto the pigs.
Since we didn't have access to a farm this year, we bought apples at our local supermarket one day and scattered them around the park down the street. The kids hunted for the apples and put them in paper bag baskets (paper bags with pipe cleaner stems for handles)
Here we made a class apple tree using paper plates and tissue paper.
We also were able to purchase miniature pumpkins at the supermarket that we then hid in the classroom for pumpkin picking. The kids then placed them onto our haystacks (cardboard boxes with shredded construction paper glued to them). They later painted them.
We also celebrated Halloween by making our own costumes for the children to wear during the Halloween weekend using plain white tshirts, shaped sponges, paint brushes and fabric paint (sorry-no picture). The kids also used this same method to make trick-or-treat bags using small totes bags I had purchased for them. We topped the celebration off with a mummy making using toilet paper.
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October books to read:
