Happy Thanksgiving!

We have had a great two days!    We continued learning about time, we had Maker Space, and started our next social studies unit about Colonial times (specifically about the first Thanksgiving).

Math

This week, we learned about telling time to the nearest five minute.  Your child made a clock on Monday (which should have come home in his/her homework folder yesterday) - this is a great material to use for homework practice!  Today, we talked about am and pm.  We learned that there are 24 hours in a day and 12 hours are in the am and 12 hours are in the pm.  We also talked about that the same time happens two times within a day, and it is important to think about what is happening at that time to determine if it is am or pm.

Next week, we will move on to place value.  We will learn about expanded notation (184 = 100 + 80 + 4) and representing a number with place value blocks.

Campfire Stories

The kiddos finished up their second personal narrative last week.  Today, we talked about the importance of an author being able to share their writing.  So today we had a writing share celebration!  We sat around campfires and shared our stories.  Even Dr. Link and Mrs. Neale came by to hear our stories!  After our campfire share, we talked about what we could have done to our own stories to make it even better.  Some students wanted to add dialogue, other students talked about adding more details to help with the reader being able to visualize what is going on, etc.  

Maker Space

Yesterday, we had Maker Space.  The students used Perler bead to design an object.  The students were so excited when they heard that this was their option and worked so hard on their project!

Thanksgiving Fun!

Yesterday, the students wrote about what they are thankful for and then they weaved a place mat.  These place mats are coming home with your child today.  They worked extremely hard on them!  

We also partner read some fiction Thanksgiving books and the students completed a Thanksgiving story elements graphic organizer.

Today, we read a book called The First Thanksgiving.  In this book, we learned about the first Thanksgiving and even found out some myths that we thought we knew about the first Thanksgiving that weren't true!  The students wrote about this on a graphic organizer.  Make sure to ask your child what they learned - you will be impressed!

I hope that you, and your family, have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving break!