Bring on the turkey
Wishing your family a beautiful Thanksgiving
Click on the book below to read our Thanksgiving class book...
Disclaimer...
"We believe that every member of the school community contributes to student learning and should be a continuous learner."
"We believe learners will do challenging work when failure is embraced as a valuable party of the learning process and they feel safe and valued."
With that said, it is not perfect, but it is precious!
Thanksgiving Rotations
The Scarecrow glyph
Did I mention that I LOVE GLYPHS! There are so many standards that you can practice with this "crafty" idea! A glyph is a picture that tells a story. The story is pictured.
Cut, assemble, paste
Learners answered the questions and assembled their scarecrow
What does this story tell?
He is a boy who loves school. Spring is his favorite season. He has brown eyes, a pet, and siblings. Oops! Buttons came later.
Teepees
Learners rotated to each Community One classroom. In this room, they learned a little history about Indians and made teepees.
How to set a plate
They practiced setting the table for Thanksgiving.
Math
It may be hard to see in the photo. Learners chose their favorite number under 10 and made number sentences that equalled that number on each feather.
Standards covered in scarecrow glyph
- greater than/less than
- relate counting to addition and subtraction
- understanding the meaning of the equal sign
- reading fluency
- writing sight words (color words)
- following directions (ok...this is not a standard but it is VERY important)
Congrats to the newest 100 Book Clubbers!!!
Mr. Matt came to visit!
Thanks to our Mystery Reader this week, Mr. Williams (Anna's dad)!!
Daily News/Shared Reading
Proper Nouns
We read Thanksgiving stories and picked out the proper nouns that we hear. So far, we have talked about nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and proper nouns.
You may have seen...
Ask your learner if they can describe the symbols that we use. For example, words in a rectangular box indicate the subject. Words in squiggly box indicate the predicate. Learners help decide on symbols that will help us recall sentence structure. What other symbols do you see?
What does the tree mean?
We also use symbols to reinforce the reading skills that we are talking about in shared reading. Here are some more questions...What is hi-lighted? What do the feet mean?
Wish List
Clorox wipes
Kleenex
(if you can donate, thank you, thank you, thank you)