Gettin' Crafty!!!

Were only 7 school days away from Thanksgiving break!!!

Tonight the students will have a black paper turkey feather to decorate at home. GO NUTS! Well be using these feathers to make a turkey display in the hall. We want each feather to be unique and different as they will tie into our study about cultures. Please decorate these with your child and send it back to school as soon as possible. Below is a picture of what we're trying to achieve so you have an idea. (Use beads, cereal, beans, pasta, ripped colored paper, or your favorite craft supply.) 

Also, we will all have the same Thanksgiving themed spelling words this week. Thanksgiving is our bonus word worth 5 points!!! 

See our sight words as well. Read these each night with your child! 

Happy Monday friends! Thanks for sharing your sweet kids with me each day! 

Moving right along!

I cannot believe it is already time for us to begin studying cultures and traditions!!!

November may be one of my favorite months to teach because we have SO many neat things we do to learn about different cultures and traditions related to the Thanksgiving holiday. 

This week we will begin looking at Native Americans and how they lived long ago. We will make our oun Native American headdresses where students may earn feathers of honor for doing honorable things- like exceptional behavior. This is great because students will wear their headdress until Thanksgivning break and others will see their feathers of honor as well. 

Below you can find our spelling words and sight words for the week. Also, please make sure your child is studying spelling each night as well as completing their math homework. We began tracking our homework in our data notebooks and the students are so excited to color in their pie graphs when they have their homework. 

November Spelling Choice Menu

Some of our friends seemed to have lost their Spelling Menu for November. I'm posting a copy here so you may go back to reference it at any time. They may choose any of these activities for their homework, or any of the other options under the spelling tab. 

What a week!!!!

Shew!!!! What a week!!!!!

We finally finished our marathon month of October and boy am I happy to have the three day weekend to recover!!!

This is what our week looked like...

We danced to the skeleton song and read the story "Dem Bones."

We had Fall rotations this week where we visited each first grade teacher to do a fall activity. This is the craft we made after reading "Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf." The kids really enjoyed using their fingers to create the leaves on their tree using paint! 

We were so lucky to have Mrs. Kristen in our class this nine weeks. She is a block 2 student from WKU and she promises to be a great teacher! She was also nice enough to bring pumpkins for each student in our class!! We celebrated her being with us by painting the pumpkins, having popcorn, and making her Thank You cards to tell her how much we appreciated her! 

On Friday we had our Sharpen the Saw time to keep ourselves well rounded with work and play. Some students chose to come to Mrs. Yonkers room for some tech time playing on the iPads. Other students chose to go do Wii dancing in Mrs. mousers room. (Students who did not complete homework or "put first things first" this week, went to the first things first room so they had a opportunity to catch up. You can see where your child went on their classroom Do Jo report.)

Our town celebrated trick-or-treating on Friday and this is my husband and his little loot!!! 

Finally, we took some time to sharpen our own saw by having a nice dinner and playing at Blazers Fun Zone to celebrate our oldest reaching his AR goal in just one week!!! 

This week we will have THE SAME spelling words as last week since we have had two, four day weeks. This should give them plenty of time to know these words. 

I hope you all enjoy your extra day off tomorrow! See you Tuesday!