This week in our Scholastic News we learned about the First Thanksgiving and learned about what it means to be thankful. We read a book called I Am Thankful also practiced reading our emergent reader book called What are you Thankful for? We even made a fun turkey craft to share our thankfulness! Be sure to check your child's folder for their turkey collage!
In Reader's Workshop, we finished our first "We Are Readers" unit. During this unit the children learned how to partner read and to read "old favorites" by looking at the pictures and remembering how the story goes. We celebrated all our accomplishments by reading our stories to Miss Deb's third graders. Our Kindergarten readers did a wonderful job! Also during our literacy time this week, we learned two new letters "r" and "p" and we learned a new sight word "for". We have learned ten sight words so far this year. See if your child can find them in books when you are reading aloud to them. The words we have learned are...
a, am, can, for, is, I, my, see, the, you.
We also had Nearby Nature on Wednesday. This month's theme was conifer trees (fir, spruce, pine, cedar, etc.) and cones. Thanks to Jess for pulling off a one-person puppet show in which the children learned about different types of conifer trees and what their branches, cones, and needles look like! The children had a chance to observe pine cones and dissect them, noticing their seed patterns and noticing they had a some sap on them!
Lastly, we had two special activities this week! On Monday, we had Mix-It-Up with Mr. Badillo's middle schoolers. They visited our classroom during choice time and we had the chance to play and learn together. Be sure to ask your child what he or she did during Mix-It-Up. Also, Kelly, one of our school nurses, visited to talk about the importance of hand washing and staying healthy. She read us a story and then gave a us a special glow orange liquid to put on our hands to represent germs. Then we had to go wash our hands and see if we could get all the germs off by washing and drying our hands well. Then she took a black light to see if we got all the "germs" off! How did your child do washing his or her hands? She reminded us to scrub well while singing the ABC song and dry our hands completely!
I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving! Stay healthy!
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