This week we learned about the history behind our Thanksgiving Holiday and also about Pilgrims and Native Americans. We spent the bulk of our time focused on the differences between then and now. Students discussed ways Pilgrims were thankful and then shared what they are thankful for.
I've also highlighted some of the fun learning we are doing in Math. We use math tools and the Smartboard for most of our lessons. It keeps the kids engaged and busy.
Our turkey disguises turned out so cute! The students decided they needed a little bit more disguise to truly keep their turkey safe from the dinner table. I poked around in my cabinets and found all sorts of goodies to add to students' turkeys.
We learned the big fancy word 'cornicopia' after learning about the first Thanksgiving feast. Students made their own Horn of Plenty following the lesson.
I had to add this little Ninja Turtle to the blog. Just an example of student creativity!
Here are two more examples of our daily weather journals. Students work at their own ability level. My job is to push for a little more every day. I'll continue to add pics of both the daily weather journal and our morning journal so parents can see the progression of writing skills.
Day 1- students identified #1-10, placed them in numerical order, and showed 6 as 5 and 1 more. A few students worked with a partner for this activity as it was challenging for some.
Day 2- students are doing Quick Practice. This is a 5 min activity focused on specific skills. This day students show fingers for numbers 6-10.
I added recording on the smartboard. Students are getting familiar with oral number sentences, number sentences with words, and also number sentences with symbols (+) (-) (=).
For these next few pictures, we were working on showing equal and not equal.
That's some of our week in learning. We will have a 3 day week for Nov. 24-26th!