It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.  Dr. Seuss

Division 10 has been having a lot of fun reading all kinds of books about cats.  We have been learning how authors create interesting or “colorful” characters in their books.  Pete the Cat is one of our favorite characters because he never gets flustered no matter what.  The Cat in the Hat has so much fun, but he always cleans up after himself.  We also love Chester, Splat the Cat, Bad Kitty and Skippy Jon Jones.

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Division 10 finally finished our pumpkin artwork.  First, we drew our pumpkin on black paper.  Next, we used glue to make the outline.  After the glue had dried, we coloured the pumpkin with oil pastels. 

Division !0 read a book called Rotten Pumpkin: A Rotten Tale in 15 Voices by David Schwartz and Dwight Kuhn.  This is possible the most disgusting book ever . . . and we loved it.   It is the story of what happens to a pumpkin once it starts to rot.  We learned a lot about how organisms like fungi, bacteria, molds and insects help to decompose pumpkins and recycle them back into the earth.  The pictures are fantastic and really gross.

Then we started looking at Jack the class pumpkin with our magnifying glasses.  We tried to identify some of the things that we saw in the book.  Here we are at work.