Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on November 5, 2018
Thank you all for attending our students led conferences this week! Each child loved showing their parents their work and progress they have made! I am so proud of them!! I hope you enjoy the “disguise a turkey” family project. Please send your disguised turkey in as soon as you can so that we can enjoy them before the Thanksgiving break.
November 5-9
This week we will be learning:
- I Love You Ritual song: Wonderful Woman
- Penmanship: Letters Yy, Ee, Ff
- Sight Words: look, you
- Reading: There was an Old Lady who swallowed a Pie, Pete The Cat Thanksgiving, Turkey Trouble
- Discuss main character, setting, and order of events.
- Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences
- Graphic organizer with sequencing
- Turkey erase a rhyme
- Focus on sight words (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at, little, in, is, my, put, you, look)
- Poems:
- You Need
- Glad I’m Not a Turkey
- You Need
- Math:
- number talks – Dot Cards, also use 2 rekenreks. Figure out the total on each. Then, the total all together. What do you see? How do you see it?
- Grab and Count 2 Handfuls of objects
- Number Line Game: Partners each create their number line. They take turns removing a card while their partners eyes are closed. The partner has to figure out which number is missing.
- problem solving – which 3D shapes roll, stack, or slide?
- Turkey Feather Count (with pipe cleaners and beads)
- Problem Solving – There were 5 turkeys. 2 turkeys ran away. How many turkeys are left?
- Have students create their own dot cards on notecards. Allow them to figure out how many and show it/share.
- Activity: Create Ten Craft: Use dice to come up with the some of ten
- Writing
- journals – use sight words (color words and other sight words I, see, we, go, on, the, go, am, like, can, me, at, little, in, is, my, put, look, you)
- writing about personal experiences (focus on starting sentences with a capital letter, spacing between words, punctuation), reference our heart maps to get ideas of what to write about
- continue adding to our personal word wall in our writing folders and Use sentence frames to help us write\
- Review labeling anchor chart, draw a big turkey on chart paper and label it, use sentence stems to write a sentence about your turkey.
- Thanksgiving Paper Bag Book using our class thankful brainstorming chart
- lesson on writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)
- Social Studies/Science:
- sharing family pictures and pages from our mascot and birthday journals
- Why are Pumpkins Orange
- Drawing and Labeling a turkey
- Holiday Celebrations – Thanksgiving (brainpop jr.)
- Fun Friday – Finish Walking Spiders!
- Feeling Buddies: Keeping Our Feeling Buddies Safe – to recognize feeling faces, name the feeling and learn self-regulatory self-talk