Kindergarten Chronicle

We will be finishing up our unit on pumpkins this week and soon moving on to our next theme, Egypt! We all know that a pumpkin is an oval shape and has a stem. When asked this question, some of our kindergarten students described the pumpkin as bumpy on the outside. Our sides feel bumpy because we have ribs. Pumpkins have ribs as well and its ribs also make the pumpkin feel bumpy. The outside of the pumpkin is called the skin and we have skin outside our bodies too. We first examined the pumpkin. Some students remembered carving pumpkins and used good words like squishy, mushy and gooey. We drew pictures of what we thought the inside would look like. Mrs. Flores cut out a small pumpkin, examined the different parts and then drew the inside of the pumpkin with all the real parts represented.

We read a Native American tale called The Sun’s Daughter, which is inspired by Iroquois tales of the Corn Maiden and her sisters Pumpkin and Red Bean. The story explains how the harvest goddesses caused Autumn to happen. The people beg the trees to weep and a feast of corn keeps the villagers from starving.

CPS was honored to welcome our special guest Mr. Piszek! Mr. Piszek gave all Kindergartners a copy of Duck for President. This book is a great tool to learn about the election.

Last Week's "Kindergarten Chronicle"

The children are excited to welcome Mrs. Flores back this week. We are happy to share that the kindergarteners showed great resilience last week as we experienced the death of our frogs and having a classmate move to another school. The students made cards and wrote notes to her. 

The letters and sounds the children focused on last week were “r” as in rug, “m” like in meal, and “d” like drum. We learned about pumpkins and different types of seeds. One student brought in pumpkins and gourds for the class to share and paint. The kindergarteners immensely enjoyed the experience and shared their pumpkins in front of the whole school at Community Meeting on Friday.

Pumpkin Poem to practice at home

(In the tune of “I’m a little teapot”)

I’m a little pumpkin
Orange and round
Here is my stem
There is the ground
When I get all cut up
Don’t you shout!
Just open me up
And scoop me out!