P is for Pumpkin

It has been a very busy few weeks! With Thanksgiving, Fire Safety week, school photos and initial assessments all wrapped up, I have finally found a minute to post.
The Kinders and I have been exploring individual letters of the alphabet. We started with A and B, but when the opportunity presented itself, we skipped over to P.
When I say "the opportunity presented itself," I mean two of my students' mom thoughtfully donated a ton of coloured pumpkin seeds to our classroom.

This is just a fraction of the seeds!

I decided it would be fun to use the seeds to create a letter...even better, to create the letter that Pumpkin (seeds) begins with!

With each letter we have and will explore, we begin by brainstorming a list of words that begin with said letter. Did you know there are a LOT of animals that begin with the letter 'P'? Did you also know that drawing animals is not my forté? As the students come up with the words, I do my best to keep up and record what they say, along with a picture. 

Not included...panther, platypus, parrot, poodle, pig, piglet

After we looked at how a 'P' was made, I gave all of the littles a piece of black cardstock on which I had photocopied an upper-case 'P' and a lower-case 'p.' (Did you know you can photocopy black Sharpie onto black cardstock!?) They each got a small paintbrush, and I put little containers of white glue at each table (a method which I find a lot less time consuming than the bottles...because I don't have to unclog any lids with a paperclip.) I filled a pie pan with a handful of each colour of seed and let them have at it!

Some kids created patterns, some used all the same colour, and some went completely random, They all turned out great!

Stay tuned for more ABC fun!