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Enjoy reading all about our learning adventures from this week!

Literacy

This week, our close reading lessons focused on the book Thanksgiving Then and Now. The children reviewed main idea and details with the first reading of, Thanksgiving Then and Now. They decided what the topic of the book was and then went back in the text to find supporting details. After our second reading, the children worked together to complete a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting our Thanksgiving to the very first Thanksgiving. 

Super Sentences:

On Friday, the children turned into super sentence heroes! Each child created their own super sentence hero mask. Using their graphic organizers from earlier in the week, they chose one telling, asking, and exciting sentence to glue onto their mask. The children had a lot of fun with this activity and enjoyed sharing their sentences with one another. 

Math 

This week, the children worked with their calculators. They practiced reading and entering numbers and symbols on the calculator. They programed their calculators to count forward and backward by counts of 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s from a given number.

The children also worked with the dime. They identified the characteristics of a dime and its value. The children showed equivalent amounts of money using pennies and nickels. They worked with exchanging pennies for nickels and dimes. 

The children enjoyed playing the game Nickel-Penny Grab. The game helped them practice counting coins.

Social Studies

To wrap up our Thanksgiving Unit the children used all of their graphic organizers to create a book titled, The Wampanoags, Pilgrims, and Me. Each child wrote down the facts they learned over the last couple weeks about the Pilgrims and Wampanoag. After, they illustrated their book to give the reader additional information. The children took turns reading their books to one another. They are very excited to share their book with you over Thanksgiving break!

First Grade Musical

The children did a great job on their first grade musical. I am so proud of how hard they worked! They were so excited to share it with all of you on Tuesday night. Thank you for attending the performance and watching your stars shine! Enjoy the photos below. 

Star Student

Kelsey was our star student this week. Thanks Kelsey for sharing all about you!

Royal Reader

A special thank you to Kelsey’s Dad, He joined us this week as our Royal Reader. The children really enjoyed listening to the two stories that Mr. Schmidt read, Pete the Cat The First Thanksgiving and Owlets First Flight.  

Happy Thanksgiving! 

I hope you have a wonderful time with your family and friends.