School has got to be the WORST place to be on
Halloween day, but we made the most of it! To begin the day, each 
student received a pumpkin (gourd) to describe. They were cautioned to be very careful in describing it and list ALL the details! After they described their pumpkins, they were taken away and put into a pile. The job of each student was to find THEIR pumpkin based only on their description. They rocked that job, with each being able to find their individual pumpkin. Then things got a little more difficult. They were asked to
trade their description sheets with a friend, and use that description to find their friend’s pumpkin. That was pretty much a failure! The lesson learned? You need to be VERY descriptive in your writing!!
After description time was over, we decided to improve our descriptive skills with the use of a thesaurus. Each partner set was given two pumpkins with “feelings” described. Their pumpkin felt sad, happy, mad, frustrated, confident, etc. The job was to first draw that face on their pumpkin, then write a sentence describing WHY their pumpkin was feeling that way, and finally to use the thesaurus to list synonyms for that feeling. Bonus: the class now has a great resource to use during writing time! (and it’s pretty darn cute to boot!)
After lunch, it was on to pumpkin math! Given three (or four!) numbers, could you make the largest and smallest numbers? These 2nd graders sure could! They were able to also make ALL the different numbers with 3 digits, add their digits together, identify the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands place, and more. What a bunch of smartie pants they are!!
But finally (FINALLY) it was time for the good stuff – party!! Too much awesomeness to describe there, so you’ll just have to take a look. A very special thank you to Mrs. Pedersen for organizing our party and to our many, many parent volunteers. I think it was a huge hit all the way around!
Love,
Mrs. Heath
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