Thanksgiving Fun!!

We had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving! We created an "I am thankful for..." class book, made a turkey syllable sort book,  added a turkey handprint poem to our memory books, and learned a turkey poem. More turkey fun pictures to come!

Thanksgiving Center Day

A huge thank you to the parents who volunteered and donated items! We couldn't have done it without you! Our next center day will be in just a few short weeks to celebrate Christmas.

Pilgrims, turkey cookies, thanksgiving story necklaces, indian vests, turkey headbands!

Next up... Advent!

Peek at the Week

It's the last week before Thanksgiving break! Wednesday is our Thanksgiving center day. We will finish Unit 2 in our reading series this week and will begin unit 3 when we come back. This week we will continue learning about the first Thanksgiving.

This week in...

Reading:

Oral Vocabulary: beanstalk, lad, ogre, magic, naughty, lend
Phonemic Awareness: Review short i and short a
Sight words: he, for
Comprehension: realism and fantasy, review sequence
Readers Workshop: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Review adjectives
Writing: Writing process; Plan a story, draft, revise, edit, share
Writing: I am thankful for... ; Journey on the Mayflower

Standards we will cover:

Foundational Skills 1.b, 2.d, 2.e, 2.c, 3
Literature 2, 3, 5
Writing 3, 5, 7
Language 5, 5.c

Peek at the Week

This week in...

Reading:

Phonemic Awareness: beginning and medial /i/ sound
Blending words with short a and short i
Sight words: he, for
Readers Workshop: A Bed For Winter
Comprehension: sequence
Conventions: adjectives for opposites
Writing: using uppercase and lowercase letters and finger spaces 

Math:

Begin Topic 3
Counting 6 and 7
Reading and writing 6 and 7
Counting 8 and 9
Reading and writing 8 and 9
Pumpkin Bingo
November calendar skills: writing the date, graphing name syllables, daily domino, weather graph
Comparing more and less
Ordinal numbers (first, second, third, fourth. Fifth)

Social Studies:

All about the first thanksgiving

Science:

Finish up pumpkin experiment 

Pumpkins and Halloween

Last week was filled with activities! The reading buddy party, Halloween centers, trick-or-treating, 50th Day of School and All Saints Day left the students (and teachers) begging for the weekend on Friday!

We started the week by making spider cupcakes with Mrs. Garner!

Then we had our Halloween Reading Buddy party with our 4th Grade Reading Buddies!

Pumpkin Unit

We have been learning about pumpkins the last two weeks. 

This is our bubble map of pumpkin adjectives

We finished up our pumpkin unit by opening our pumpkin and counting the seeds. Before we counted the seeds, each student gave an estimate as to how many seeds they thought would be in the pumpkin. We counted the seeds by 10s. There were 366 pumpkin seeds in our pumpkin!

Avery had the closest estimation.. she estimated 350 seeds in the pumpkin!

Peek at the Week

This week in...

Reading:

Oral Vocabulary: sleep, winter, cave, woods, storm, blustery
Phonemic Awareness: Initial and final /k/
Phonics: /k/ spelled Cc
Handwriting: letters Cc

Sight words: we, my, like

Big Book: "Bear Snores On"
Listening Comprehension: Realism and Fantasy
Adjectives for sizes, numbers, colors, and shapes


Standards we will cover:

CCSS Foundational Skills 2.a, 2.d, 2.e, 3.d, 3.a
CCSS Literature 2, 3, 5
CCSS Speaking/Listening 4
CCSS Language 5, 5.c

Math:

We will begin Topic 3: "Six to Ten" on Monday!

Counting Six and Seven
 - Vocab: six, seven
 - Game: Memory Match

Reading and Writing 6 and 7
 - Game: Helping Hands

Counting 8 and 9
 - Vocab: eight, nine
 - Game: Memory Match

Standards we will cover:

K.CC.3
K.CC.4
K.CC.4.b
K.CC.5

Seasonal:

All about pumpkins, mummies, and HALLOWEEN!!!

Religion:

All Saints Day Thursday... don't forget to wear a Saint costume on Thursday!