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November 13-17




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

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