Scarecrows!

We had a lot of fun this week doing scarecrow stuff!  I wanted to post pictures of some of our center activities and theme activities.  Enjoy!

We picked crows out of the corn.  Then we counted how many we got and recorded the number on the sheet.  (another great idea from Mrs. Estes...visit her blog at http://krazyforkindergarten.blogspot.com )

we rolled the die and put that many patches on our scarecrow

we drew a shape out of the bag to build a scarecrow

measuring our class scarecrow with pumpkins.  We recorded what we did on a sheet.

we labeled a scarecrow with color words and words that matched his suit

mean                                  silly

 surprised                             sad

happy

We read The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown and then we decided what kind of face we wanted our little scarecrow boys to have.  We completed a sentence to match our face.

Max from Where the Wild Things Are visiting our classroom.  We also watched the video that morning on BSLK television.  (We have an Awesome librarian)

The Scarecrow's Hat

We read The Scarecrow's Hat by Ken Brown.  Such a cute story!  The chicken needs scarecrow's hat and he finds out that scarecrow really wants a walking stick to prop his arms on and that he would trade his hat for a stick.  So, chicken sets out to find a walking stick.  He meets up with lots of animals who all need something and would trade what they have.  Eventually chicken gets everybody everything they want in order to trade a walking stick for scarecrow's hat.  Why does chicken 'need' a hat?  You'll have to read it to find out!  We completed a story map and then talked about what we would wish for.  Later, we drew and water colored our wishes.  We also wrote our wish on our paper after they dried.  The kids had some great wishes!  See below.

this student wished for a chocolate popsicle

Five Crows All Shiny Black

Fall lends itself to some of our most fun units!  I love scarecrows and it's one of my favorite weeks.  We use the poem Five Crows for our focus poem and below are some pictures of a couple of fun activities.  A teacher friend, Mrs. Estes shared both ideas with me a few years ago.  First, I act our the poem by wearing the shirt and hat and crows.  I teach the students the poem while I act it out.  This year, I put the scarecrow clothes in our storytelling center and let them retell the story all week.  They had a blast!  We also made a flip book where first we drew a scarecrow then glued on 5 crows.  We retold the poem while "scaring" away the crows as we flipped the flaps. 

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

We read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams. Such a cute story. I found this idea of making a pocket chart puzzle on overallsuccess.net a couple of
years ago and I just had to do it. We put the puzzle together and then retold what each part of the scarecrow did. During centers the kids worked together to put it together and label the parts. Fun! We also made a scarecrow with die-cuts.