This week the kindergarteners explored Thanksgiving, everything from the first Thanksgiving to the special food we eat. We learned about why the Pilgrims left England, their ship the Mayflower, and how some of them died that first year. Then we explored the different ways the Wampanoag people helped the Pilgrims and the feast they had together to celebrate. We also compared what life is like today to that of the Pilgrim people. Then we made a new class book. We each had to create our own Thanksgiving dinner menu. Next we read the story ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. The children in the story save the turkeys and try to convince people to eat something else. We decided to do the same thing. We each wrote a list of things you can eat instead of turkey. We also created a picture of us with a turkey stuffed underneath our shirt. On Thursday, we celebrated the 50th day of school with a Back to the Fifties Party. We counted to fifty, wrote fifty words, and compared household items. We ended the day with a Sock Hop and Root Beer Floats!
Monday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a letter Cc worksheet
Introduced to the new sight word, you
Read through our new emergent reader, Thanksgiving Dinner
Listened to the story, The Very First Thanksgiving Day
Explored the First Thanksgiving
Compared and contrasted our Thanksgiving with the first Thanksgiving
Introduced to new words, pilgrim, Wampanoag, Mayflower, harvest, & feast
Today we focused on the Pilgrims and their journey and experiences
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Religion:
Gospel Weekly - Making good choices.
Tuesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a letter Oo worksheet
Created a list of things we like to eat for snack
Listened to the story, No Turkey for Thanksgiving
Defined menu and discussed when and where you might see use one
Created our own Thanksgiving dinner menu and illustrated it
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Listened to the story, Sort It Out!
Worked on sorting a group of objects in different ways (size, shape, color, etc..)
Religion:
We spent some time thinking about some things we are thankful for. Then we started a Thank You God! book. Each day we will write 1 thing we are thankful for. Then we have to draw a picture of it.
Wednesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a letter Ff worksheet
Listened to the story, ’Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
Created a list of items you could eat instead of Turkey
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Introduced to the ten frame
Represented different numbers on the ten frame
Found the ten pairs (1 and 9 or 4 and 6)
Religion:
Wrote in our Thank You God books about 1 thing we are thankful for.
Thursday:
Happy 50th Day of School! What an exciting day we had! To celebrate the 50th day of school, we had a Back to the Fifties party!
Reading
Read through our new emergent reader, Sock Hop
Wrote 50 words
Created a list of things we can do in 50 years
Completed a Now and Then sorting activity
Root Beer Float science experiment: Does ice cream float in root beer?
Math
Calendar
Counted to 50 by ones, fives, and tens
Number Find: located numbers on a hundreds chart to create a picture of the word fifty
Created AB, ABB, ABC patterns
Sock hop dance party
Friday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a letter Hh worksheet
Listened to the story, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving and reviewed the characters, setting, and details
Created a person with a big turkey stuffed under their shirt (like the book) and attached our list of alternative foods
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Religion:
Mass