Pumpkin Decorating Contest

 

The students at Allen Brook School filled the school buzzy jar again! As a way to celebrate we had a school wide pumpkin decorating contest. Each class got one pumpkin and we were asked to decorate it any way we wanted. Our class decided to design a scary pumpkin. We were worried that it would be too hard for all of us to carve one pumpkin so we decided to paint it and use other materials from around our classroom to decorate it. Students took turns sharing different design ideas on the board, and we finally decided what we wanted it to look like. Then we figured out what we had, and we got started! Everyone got to do some part of the the decorating, whether it was painting, gluing, adding glitter, etc... it was a whole class effort. In the end our pumpkin didn't win, but we sure had fun making it!

Here are some of the other pumpkins other classes at Allen Brook decorated. They all really looked amazing!

Buttered Toast Party

After finished all 6 Mercy Watson books, and 2 Tales from Deckawoo Drive, our class decided to have a buttered toast party to celebrate. For those who haven't read these books, toast with a great deal of butter on it is Mercy's favorite treat. In fact she likes anything that has butter on it; popcorn, butter candies, you name it!

The buttered toast was delicious! It made the perfect afternoon snack to go along with our readers' workshop. You may even notice that some students are rereading the books on their own now.

Rather than just buying bread and butter from the store, we decided to make our own butter. It was super easy. All we did was fill a jar with heavy cream, salt, and one marble to help with the mixing. Then we took turns passing the jar around and shaking as hard as we could. Within 5 minutes we had delicious creamy butter!