House 43’s Pre-Halloween Reflection
As surprise, we planned a Halloween Party for the kids at the end of the day on Friday, October 31. In an effort not to abandon our reflection for the week, the children compiled a list of the activities for the pre-Halloween week. Here is their compiled reflections.
- Wall Map coloring
- Mammal Research – making our paragraphs in hamburger organizers
- House 14 Kindergarten Buddies
- Art: Painting & finishing our portraits and wood working
- Music: Scary Story for third grade only
- Halloween Graph of House 43 Costumes
- Oliver’s Birthday
- Reading Groups: Reading in character’s voices (Reader’s Theater)
- Home Assignments
- Math Packets with a partner learning about addition properties
- Finding pieces to publish in our Writer’s Notebook
- Rounding numbers in Math Morning work
- Lab
- Upper Roof
- Library: Voting for David Weisner books
- Science: Planning our posters for earthworms
- Reading Abel’s Island
- Lunch: Tacos
- Science: Preparing to write our paragraphs on earthworms
- Julia screaming from the prank played by Miss Seiffert
- Spelling – long i
- Keyboarding
- I.R.
- Sharing what we are being for Halloween
- Fact Families in math
- Bar Graphs
- Reading Groups: Filling in our Inference Rectangles
- P.E.: Volleyball and pick game days and soccer
- NOLA Buddy postcards
- House Meeting on Thursday
- Making our own House 43 bar graphs
- Science: Earthworm test
- Free Choice
- House 14 Buddy Story – In A Dark, Dark Wood
- Reader’s Workshop: Scooter and The Search for Delicious
- Our own written reflections
- Math surveys
- Mammal Research: taking notes
- “Why I Like Chocolate” by Nikki Giovanni
- Snack
- Morning meeting


















