Happy Thanksgiving!

Today the kids made turkey hats to celebrate Thanksgiving!  Because gratitude is a character trait we are focusing on this year, we talked about different things we are thankful for and the kids wrote their ideas on the feathers of their turkeys.  Ask your child what they are thankful for :)

 

Phonics Practice

Each day after our phonics lesson, the kids get together with a partner to read their phonics practice page.  One student is the coach and the other is the reader, and then they switch jobs.  Below is a video that shows how the kids work together and encourage one another to practice their reading skills!

2D Shapes!

In math the past couple weeks we have been talking about and comparing two dimensional shapes.  We have discussed how many sides and corners they have and been creating shapes with rubber bands on the geoboards.  Tell your child you are thinking of a shape that has 6 sides and 6 corners.  They better say hexagon! :)

 

 

 

 

 

For Literacy, our new sight words for this week are: I, happy, on

We are learning to read and sing a song call "Walking in the Woods"--it is really cool and very catchy too.

Our new sounds this week are : "m" and "s".  We have been learning these sounds and the sight words everyday.  If you can help at  home too, that would be awesome!

In Music, we danced and listened to songs but we have to be very good listeners too because the music teacher can say "freeze" anytime and we have to freeze. 

In Ipad, Mr. D finally showed and allowed us to take pictures of things around the room; not people though---except for Mr. Thao.

In Art, Ms Koerner read a book about dots in nature and then we tried to make dots of our own.  We did not realize how many dots there are out there in the world.

In Gym, we played a game involving throwing beach balls at friends--kind of like beach ball tag.  Don't worry, the beach balls are very soft.

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Picture retakes is tomorrow....please return all pictures if you want your child's pictures to be retaken.  Thanks.



Reminders

Just a few Reminders!

***Sandburg Picture Retakes is this Thursday, November 7.

***Make sure you sign up for conference next week.  If you have a google email account, you can sign up online.  If you don't, a sign up sheet will be coming home tomorrow.  Pick three slots and send it back to us.

*** Because of November Conference next week, there will be no Open School House on Tuesday.***

Yeah!  End of another hard working week.  Give your child a high five or a big hug.

In Art this week, we made squashes.  No, we did not plant the squashes, we used construction papers.

For Ipad with Mr. D, we worked on a few new apps and some old ones too.  We did one that helps us count and one that helps us learn to write letters.

Mondo: we finished our What Come First? book and we used some pictures to help us understand and remember more about the events in the story.  Oh, and ask us about non-fiction and fiction.

In Math, some of the friends are learning about measuring. Mr. Thao called Menards to order a piece of wooden block but we did not know how to tell the Menard lady how big of a piece of wood block...we finally figured it out using Unifix cubes to help us measure.  Oh, don't worry, Ms Kent was our pretend Menard's Lumber Lady.

More cool Stuff we did this week.

Papers Coming Home This week:

November Lunch Menu

Toy Depot Application: Due back on the 6th of November