Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that you all enjoy the holiday weekend with your families!



Turkey centers

We all said something special about each classmate.



Saturday, November 23, 2013

November 22 Newsletter





 We are learning about

  • turn around math facts
  • meeting the characters in our books
  • math fact families
  • writing realistic fiction
  • Thanksgiving
  • interesting story starters
  • stopping and jotting to hold our thinking in readers workshop

Some activities we did

  • created turkey fact families
  • played rhyming and syllable Thanksgiving games
  • began a number scroll
  • used oil pastels to draw cards
  • played with new Thanksgiving apps
  • wrote our own realistic fiction books
  • met lots of new characters in lots of books

Upcoming events:

November 26-28 Thanksgiving
December 2    Visit the book fair 2:30
December 11  Early release
December 19  Holiday Hike  details to follow

Wish list:
gallon size zip lock bags
foam soap

Happy Thanksgiving!