Happy Thanksgiving!

We have had a great few weeks celebrating Fall, harvest,  and Thanksgiving!

First we learned all about corn--how it grows, how it's harvested, and all the ways we get to enjoy it!  We read Corn by Gail Gibbons and wrote our own teaching books. 

      

We all agreed that popcorn is one of the yummiest ways to enjoy corn, and from the looks of our class popcorn graph, cheddar popcorn was our favorite!  

We even Lego engineered some technology that might help a farmer get his corn from the field to the store.  SUPER FUN!!  We had trucks, ships, and even some flying crafts!  

Next, we spent a week learning about the Pilgrim's, Indians, and the very first Thanksgiving; and even got to enjoy a special Thanksgiving Feast here at school!

This week has been dedicated to the turkey! We have read about sneaky turkeys, surprised turkeys, little turkeys, and fat turkeys!  We have done some turkey writing too!

      

Anyway you carve it, I hope you and your sweet kiddos have a great Thanksgiving!  

Pumpkin and Halloween Fun!

We have been SUPER busy the past few weeks!  We have been learning all about pumpkins and how they grow.  We became experts and decided to write our own teaching books!  Then we planted our own pumpkins!  We are anxiously looking for growth in our little pumpkin patch! 

 

We are starting our patch from the seeds we dug out of the largest of our classroom pumpkins!

 

But we didn't plant them all!  Some were for roasting!

We enjoyed our pumpkin seeds, but not nearly as much as we enjoyed our fresh baked pumpkin bread!  Just in case you are wondering, pumpkin bread is even better with your reading buddy! 

We learned about how pumpkins grow and even how to eat them, but we also read and wrote some make believe stories about pumpkins!  One of our favorite sources of inspiration was Spookley the Square Pumpkin!

And finally the long awaited holiday arrived--HALLOWEEN!  We celebrated with some witchy writing and a little witches brew!

Stretchy Snake Strategy!

We all have a new reading strategy--Stretchy Snake!

Stretchy Snake will quickly become one of your child's go to strategies and involves touching each letter of the unknown word, making the corresponding sounds, and then pushing those sounds together to identify the unknown word.  

Check out the link below for a video explanation!  Happy reading!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DweEdXTw6fk