Thanksgiving continued!

This week was only 2 days, and for that I was thankful! :) I'm pretty sure all of us were ready for a little break. We've been working so hard without any days off!

Monday was a very fun day in our class! It was all about apples for the day. We practiced visualizing as I read a story called "The Little Red House with No Doors and No Windows and a Star Inside." We talked about what such a house might look like and why it might not have any doors and windows. We came up with some pretty fun ideas. At the end of the story, I told them that the little red house was something we'd turn into a sweet dessert in the afternoon. We were very excited to learn we were going to make applesauce! I showed the kiddos how every apple has a little star inside its core to hold its seeds. We checked the apples that I cut for applesauce, and we found stars in every one! We made Flow Maps to show the steps for making applesauce. It was definitely tasty!

We also had some fun practice for our math facts this week with different Thanksgiving-themed worksheets. Here are just a couple of examples.

Tuesday was Turkey Day for us! We made some fun turkey headbands to start off the day. It was a great exercise in following directions, and they always turn out super-cute.

Since it was a short week, we didn't have a spelling list. I told the kids we'd be practicing our number words and ordinal numbers. To practice, we drew turkeys and hid our words inside them.

We also painted some turkeys using our watercolors. I love how we draw these together step-by-step, but each painting always turns out with its very own personality.

We learned about turkeys on PebbleGo then created a Tree Map together using a "Share the Pen" exercise. The children came up with the words for the Tree Map and got to write them themselves!, then they went back to their desks to write their own sentences. We wrote our sentences on some pretty cute turkeys!

We had a wonderful two-day week, and the kids had done such a great job listening and working hard that we ended the day with some Turkey Bingo! It's always a big hit, and it helps us practice our reading, especially when Ms. Stookey won't read the words out loud! :)

I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving! I'll look forward to seeing all y'all on Monday!