With Thanksgiving being this coming week, we learned about and celebrated Thanksgiving a week early. We read several books about the history of Thanksgiving as well as what we can be thankful for on this holiday. We enjoyed doing a variety of fun turkey activities, including making a pine cone turkey with our names, making turkeys from Fruit Loops, and making turkeys out of paper strips.
We also used turkeys to help us with our math skills this week. A few of our fun activities included breaking down 10 as we made turkeys out of Popsicle sticks and stuffing a turkey bye rolling a dice and counting. We also spent a lot of time talking about what we are thankful for. Our biggest desire is that every child left with a thankful heart this week. We all took time to talk about, draw, and write down what we were thankful for. The sweet notes will be added to your child's portfolio.
To add in a little fun, our journal entry for this month was "How to Roast a Turkey". Each child drew a turkey and then gave me information on the steps to roasting a turkey... You can imagine how comical some of these are! These journals will also be included in your child's portfolio at the end of the year.
We also had fun making a heart craft that we will give to our grandparents next week at Grandparents Day. Thank you so much to Amelia's Aunt Jenny who came in to help us make these!
Some of the skills we worked on this week were the letter T and reviewing all of the sight words we have done so far. We continue to use a sight word book each week to work on early literacy skills. We also had fun with two poems this week, "Five Little Turkeys" and "Alphabet Pie". You can find our fun Five Little Turkeys song in your child's poetry folder. We also continued to review the numbers one through 10, as well as ordinal numbers. We are working towards everyone being able to count to 50 now. This is something that you can practice all week at home!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Over Thanksgiving break, see if your child can...
1. Help you write down things your family is thankful for.
2. Tell your family our November verse. "I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart."
3. Practice counting to 50.
4. Help you cook something.
5. Find a sphere, cube, rectangular prism, and cylinder in your home.
We loved building with cranberries!
Turkey initial sound sort!
Look at these great readers!
We worked hard on the gifts for our grandparents!
Turkey letter tracing!
We love the science center!
Gobble, gobble! Stuffing the turkey was quite fun. :)
We loved getting to play outside!!
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