Happy Harvest Week

In the upcoming week, my class is hosting a "Happy Harvest Week" with our students. Throughout this week, the students will participate in a specific theme and also complete different activities involving pumpkins. Our "Happy Harvest Week" begins on Monday when we will count the different seeds found in a carved pumpkin. On Tuesday, the students will participate in a school-wide hat day in which they will have to pay a $0.50 donation that will go to the United Way. In our classroom, we will also be having Tell & Show Tuesday (Show & Tell) as well as doing an activity where the students will be weighing their pumpkins and graphing the results. On Wednesday, we will be dressing for Wacky Wednesday and I am very excited to make my hair a little crazy and wear different shoes! We will also be doing an activity to see whether our pumpkins will float or sink. Thursday will be Thankful Thursday in which the students will bring in something that they are thankful for. Through this theme, we are hoping to promote the school-wide positive behavior support plan where the students show compassion and respect for something/someone meaningful to them. Our pumpkin activity of the day will require the students to measure their pumpkins with a ruler from the bottom to the top of the stem. They will also have to measure their pumpkin with cubes. For our final day of our "Happy Harvest Week", we will be having Fan Friday in which the students will dress in their favorite team's colors! Our pumpkin activity will involve the students finding the circumference of their pumpkins.

I am very excited to participate in "Happy Harvest Week" because I think that it will be a great way to get the students excited about learning. Due to the fact that the students are unable to dress up for Halloween, I think that these activities will allow the students to be excited about the entire season of Fall rather than just the Halloween day.