Gobble, Gobble!

 Hope everyone enjoys their 9 days off! So glad the busy week is done with. All week long, the students had the opportunity to buy books from the Book Fair. I believe the school reached our goal of $15,000 so that’s very exciting. We also had our annual Grandparents Day Lunch on Wednesday. I forgot to take a picture of the kids in their adorable turkey hats. We spent the week learning about the first Thanksgiving, writing a story about a turkey with a problem and solution, talking about the life of the Pilgrim kids and the Wampanoag kids, what we are thankful for, and differences on our clothing now compared to the Pilgrims back then. Come check out some of our writings around the classroom.

We wrote our monthly Vietnamese writing to add to our end-of-the-year book. This month’s writing was “If I had a turkey, I would…” Some kids said they would eat it, go swimming with it, play with it, go to Target with it, go to the Dollar Tree with it, read with it, and etc.

We also took a Viet sound check on Friday over words that end in vowels. The kids did pretty well on the test. We took these words and included them into our writing in our VLA journals. It makes me excited to see how independent the kids have gotten in their journals when it’s writing time. I try to have them write once a week in their journals.

During math, we worked on finding missing addends. 

Mrs. Sklaban and I sent home homework for the kids to do over the Thanksgiving break. Totally optionally. It’s something fun to keep them a little busy over the break. It’s not the regular homework we usually send home each week but we hope that the kids pick 5 activities to do and return it on Monday for a little prize. For my overachievers, I told them they can do more than 5 if they would like!

In their folders on Monday, I will be sending home a field trip permission slip to go to the Zachary Theatre to watch Holiday Heroes. Please send that back to me ASAP. Also, I placed a little red slip about the students bringing in a special ornament from home and sharing it with the class on Monday coming back from break. We will hang it on our class Christmas tree and it will be returned before going on break again for Christmas.