Wednesday, November 22, 2017

2017 Week 12 review and Thanksgiving!

First of all, 
I want you to know how thankful I am for YOU!
These kiddos this year are eager, ready learners who make me smile on a daily basis!  
We laughed so hard one day last week, my sides hurt!

Thanks for being awesome parents who return homework promptly!  Not a fun part of raising kids, I know (6 kids remember!) but you are all doing such a thorough job!
THANK YOU!!!!
I am grateful every day for working here in such a caring district in such a lovely little town!  

During this short week we had many fun and educational opportunities!
Monday's morning challenges were:
Beginning sound match...

 Star word whipped cream words...

 Healthy foods and food groups...


 We had a nice mini lesson on long ago and today... comparing and contrasting

 We made these adorable little turkeys with the fingers of my hubby's work gloves...shhhh, he'll never know!



We filled our plates with pie!   Six pieces total for us to divide up between 2 kinds ...4 apple +2 pumpkin? 1 kiwi+5 cherry? The ideas were endless!
 We also decorated our turkeys with 5 feathers and wrote the math story for those as well.

 These kiddos filled our cornucopia at choice time!  Fun!
 Miss Brittany, a former kindergartener from Lewiston now an education major at WSU, came to help us out all day Tuesday!  Here she is helping us with a grateful journal.
 We also practiced manners with "yes, please and no, thank you" lucky duck book. These kiddos are picking out food pictures for each category.

 Tuesday's centers included:
Turkey stuffing... using tongs to grab pompoms and count them out!

 

Turkey what comes next dice roll...
Pumpkin pie whipped  cream scoops... another teen counting and recognition station

And turkey number words...

 We made these lovely turkey hand print poems for you!
 The turkey disguise projects turned out so clever and creative... thank you for doing these with your k kid!



Good Reads....


And now for the week of November 27 to December 1:
Reading:Beginning sounds,  letter Tt, star word 'we', word family "~at"
Math: printing numbers
Theme: family and food,  and then polar lands
Social studies: Family History 
BIG NEWS:
 On Wednesday, December 6 in the afternoon the entire school will be treated to a Science Show!
This lovely activity is brought to us by the PLAY group.


Friday, November 17, 2017

2017 Week 11 Letter Aa, star word *see*, Turkeys!

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Wow! This week flew by!
Thanks to all who came in for conferences!
It is nice to see you in person.

On Monday we made these bonus turkeys:
Tuesday's centers included:
brain break...make a turkey!
 How cute and creative!


 Great Turkey Race to 30...

  Turkey +1...

 
 Tricky Turkey letter sort...


Wednesday brought new morning challenges:
Beginning sound turkey feather sort... 
 Turkey abc order...

 Turkey one to one counting to 20...
 I brought Aa animal crackers for Aa snack.
We also used them as a math lesson...
How can you make 5?
1 pink 4 white? 2 pink 4 white?
 We've a few new stations!
The food table and...
 Oodles of Noodles discovery table!

 On Wednesday we learned about verbs, action words, with the cute activity RUN, TURKEY, RUN!
 In group time we generated a list of verbs.
 Individually they created these cute turkey legs and wrote their verb in a sentence using the word pattern from the book.  

 On Thursday we had a birthday celebration!
 We also celebrated the 50th day!
We are half way to 100!
 We labeled a turkey...whole group and
 individually!
 Thursday's centers included:
Turkey feathers counting...

 Thanksgiving vocab counting...

 Thanksgiving I Spy...

 and Turkey +2!
 Good reads...
And now for the week of November 20-22:
Reading: Letter and star word review
Math: Reading and Writing 6-7
Theme: Thanksgiving
Social Studies: All about time 
Long ago and today
BIG NEWS:
1:00 dismissal on Wednesday, November 22
No School November 23-26
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

WELCOME!

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