Turkey Time!

Literacy

• Handwriting: Yy, Ff
• Poem of the week: Five Fat Turkeys
• Word wall words: he, she, are, one, two
• read Thanks for Thanksgiving and made a circle map of what we were thankful for
• made a book page and added illustrations to our sentences
• read The First Thanksgiving and made a circle map of what we will  do on Thanksgiving
• made a class book and added illustrations
• talked about indians and pilgrims and what happened on the first thanksgiving
•  talked about what the ship was called and where it landed
• also discovered that they became friends and that the indians taught the pilgrims how to hunt and plant corn
• centers and jobs
• My Indian Symbols book
• Crack the Code
• Word Study-  Say it, write it, trace it
• Write the Room- Turkey
• Pocket Chart- ending sounds
• Turkey puzzle
• Poetry-fill in the blanks of Five Fat Turkeys

Math

• Reviewed positional words and started practicing written number words
• placed the correct number of button on a shirt based on the written number
• played a game with 2 teams to see who could say the number word the fastest when it was flashed
• completed our jobs and worked on our even and odd numbers on white boards

Science

• practiced more positional words using our big scarecrow and placing a block around him to represent the positional words
• had individual scarecrows with little objects and placed them on or around him based off what positional word I said

We also had library and Robertson Roundup this week!!  

Next week is going to a great week so be prepared!  We will be having our Thanksgiving feast Wednesday at 2:15!  You are all invited to join us. Then we have our Kindergarten program Thursday night!  

Don't forget: The holiday hands are due tomorrow, Monday the 15th!  I cant wait to see them all!