Thanksgiving

We've had a short week, but we made the most of it and learned about Thanksgiving!  We talked about the first feast between the Pilgrims and Native Americans, and we also talked about using our manners at the Thanksgiving dinner table as well.  We made some fun turkey crafts and had some fun time playing with friends in the classroom and the Minds in Motion Room too.  Hope you enjoy the pics and videos from the week!


Letter "I" Abc Mouse Song

Color Words Rap

The First Thanksgiving Video

We worked on a combination of skill review this week with reviewing our color words, numbers, and letters covered so far.  We also worked on tracing and creating our letter "Ii" of the week as well as showing our number 10 on a ten frame, too.

 

We created our own turkey pics with colorful feathers we glued on.

We created our own turkey crafts that listed the things we're thankful for.

We also talked about all the things we would feed our turkeys if they were our pets as well.  These were too cute!  They came up with some interesting things to feed their turkeys for sure!

We glued buttons on Indian corn pictures that had a color prayer full of color words we've been working on.  Picking up and gluing on buttons is great fine motor for these little hands too!

Mrs. Andrea did a fun activity with us to help us remember our manners at the dinner table this holiday season.  A variety of pictures of foods were on paper plates and as they were passed, kiddos had to say, "Yes, please" or "No, thank you" to show their manners.  We definitely have a few picky eaters, but we finally found some things everyone could say, "Yes, thank you" to! :)

We brought in letter "Ii" items for Show and Tell this week.

We had 3 ice cream cones.

We had 2 ink pens.

We had 1 ice pack.

We had 1 bunny named "I".  ;)

We had 1 letter "i" magnet.

We had 1 Isabella bird.

We had 2 Iron Men.

 We also counted 6 friends from our class who brought in a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child.  Thank you to all the generous families that helped make Christmas special for kids all over the world!

 We had some fun time playing in class together too. :)

These chilly days encouraged us to get some wiggles out in the MIM room this week.

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!  See you next week!

Leaves

We've admired the colorful leaves changing in our area for the past few weeks, and this week we got to study them!  We looked at them with magnifying glasses, painted with them, and talked about all the things that make them different.  We worked on letter "B" and number "9" and practiced making both.  We had fun times playing inside and even outside for just a little bit this week too.  We have to squeeze in outdoor play when we can before it gets too cold!  Hope you enjoy the pics from the week!

These little investigators looked closely at these leaves and worked on drawing them and describing them by color and size.  Great scientists!

 

We painted with Legos to make it look like leaves on a tree.  Messy but fun!

We "traced" leaves with paint.  Some of them look more like leaves than others, but it was still a lot of fun!

We worked on making letter Bb with dry erase markers.

 

We worked on sorting picture cards under the write letter to match the beginning letter sounds.

 

We played a game by spinning a spinner to land on certain individual leaves, and then we graphed our responses after spun.

We had a friend bring in the Estimation Jar full of trains, and we had to guess to see how many were in there.  We're now talking about making a guess less than 20, writing the numbers we guess, and then counting together as a class to see who guessed the closest number.

We cut and pasted pieces of a sentence and put it back together correctly.

We worked on a combo skills sheet to help us match upper and lowercase letters, trace our letters and numbers, and show 9 on a ten frame. 

We shared our items on the ten frame.

We had 1 bunny.

We had 2 bears.

We had 1 baby bottle.

We had 3 balls.

We had 2 Barbie friends. :)

We had 1 bottle of baby lotion.

We had 1 blue dinosaur fingerling.

We had 1 boy.

 We had 1 Barney stuffed animal.

We had 1 bat.

We had 1 berry.  (It was also pink, our color of the week!)

 We had 1 book.

We got some wiggles out in the MIM room this week.

We played with friends inside the classroom...

We were also able to purchase these new ladybuy chairs with our fundraiser money as well.  So cute!

We celebrated this little birthday boy...

...with cupcakes!  Can you tell what color the icing was?

We braved the cold with our winter coats and played outside for just a little bit.  Look at this cool musical noise maker we added to our playground area.  So fun!  Thanks to all your fundraiser contributions, we were able to make that happen!

Have a blessed week!