Gobble Gobble!

The month is flying by!  We have been learning about the first Thanksgiving and how the pilgrims feasted for three days.  We are learning about what is the same and what is different between the first Thanksgiving and ours.

Remember that there is no school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to have plenty of time to spend with your families!

There is also no school on Thursday, December 3 for Parent Teacher Conferences.  If you sent in a conference request form, I sent home a conference time.  Please let me know if you need a reminder!

We have been using patterns to help us read texts more smoothly.  We have so many super powers now to help us be Super Readers!  Our unit will end on Tuesday, and I have invited our Super Readers to dress as a super hero.  We have been practicing books to read to our second grade reading buddies.

In math, we are finishing up our unit on classifying and comparing.  We are able to classify when the groups are given to us, but it is trickier to come up with our own categories.  You can help your child by giving them a group of toys to sort and encourage him or her to explain it.  We are very good at comparing numbers using greater, less and equal.  The students love to find things that are equal in the classroom.  For example, this table is equal.  There are two girls and two boys.

Some books we read this week are:
     


    

  

50th Day of School

     Last Thursday, we celebrated the fiftieth day of Kindergarten.  It was a blast!  We watched a small clip of I Love Lucy when Lucy and Ethel were working in the chocolate store.  We had a bubble gum blowing contest and wrote about the results.  We played with games and toys from the fifties (Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Mr. Potato Head, and matchbox cars).  We counted to fifty by ones and fives.  We learned about tally marks too.  We read a Madeline book written in the time period too.  The students got a goodie bag of candy from the 1950s to take home.
     We are continuing to add letters to our Fundations chart.  We starting to practice the letters without the picture cues and the students are rising to the challenge.  We added for and my to our popcorn words.
     Readers Workshop has been teaching us how to be Super Readers.  We use Pointer Power to point to each word.  We use Reread Power to reread when we make a mistake.  We use Partner Power to help each other.  We use Picture Power to look at the picture and figure out a word.  We use Popcorn Word Power to find words that we know and read them in a snap.  We are starting to read level A books in addition to familiar storybooks and read about the world books.
     In math we are working on classifying objects into groups.  The students do a fabulous job sorting when the category is given.  It is more difficult to come up with categories on our own.  You can give students a group of small objects (toys, buttons, rocks) and have your child find a category.  Once they sort one way, try to have your child come up with another way.

Books we have read:


        



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