Happy Thanksgiving to All! I hope everyone is enjoying a little time with family, no matter the size.
Family and Thanksgiving was our focus this week. We started off our week talking about what makes a family, different family make-ups and how the most important thing is the love that you share. The kids worked hard all week on their own family home projects where they cut, glued photos and decorated. They were very proud, and as many parents may know, they sure enjoyed sharing their Family Home projects with anyone who walked in the door. Everyone worked on drawing pictures of their families, sequencing family size photos, and practicing counting and number identification through a family card clipping activity.
We learned and talked about what is means to be thankful and we used our Thankful song to learn about more words like grateful and generous. Generous became a big word for us, as we talked about others having less than we do and what we can do to help. Together the kids drew the things they were thankful for on a large paper and made Thankful Turkey Handprints. They practiced counting and number identification through a Thanksgiving matching game.
Some of the books we read this week include:
Heather has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland and Sonja Lamut
A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara O’Leary
The two songs we used at Morning Meeting this week were:
The Family Song by Sesame Street and Thankful by Juicebox Jukebox
For letter practice this week we practiced horizontal and vertical lines by making a ladder that led up to two drawings that start with the letter E. The kids also went on a hunt to find vertical and horizontal lines and sorted them into their workbooks.
As many families may know, we have been working our way through the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osbourne. We have been practicing how to use good listening ears, how to make predictions and how to make the pictures in our heads because these are chapter books that usually only have one picture per chapter. We just finished the 8th book and have now found all 4 things that were needed to free Morgan from the spell she was under. Finding out that Peanut the mouse was Morgan, leading Jack and Annie to the 4 items needed to break the spell, for the past four chapter books was quite surprising. Now we will be onto book 9 Dolphins at Daybreak.
And of course we played in leaves (while we still could), explored NoseHill Park and climbed some trees.
Family and Thanksgiving was our focus this week. We started off our week talking about what makes a family, different family make-ups and how the most important thing is the love that you share. The kids worked hard all week on their own family home projects where they cut, glued photos and decorated. They were very proud, and as many parents may know, they sure enjoyed sharing their Family Home projects with anyone who walked in the door. Everyone worked on drawing pictures of their families, sequencing family size photos, and practicing counting and number identification through a family card clipping activity.
We learned and talked about what is means to be thankful and we used our Thankful song to learn about more words like grateful and generous. Generous became a big word for us, as we talked about others having less than we do and what we can do to help. Together the kids drew the things they were thankful for on a large paper and made Thankful Turkey Handprints. They practiced counting and number identification through a Thanksgiving matching game.
Some of the books we read this week include:
Heather has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland and Sonja Lamut
A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara O’Leary
The two songs we used at Morning Meeting this week were:
The Family Song by Sesame Street and Thankful by Juicebox Jukebox
For letter practice this week we practiced horizontal and vertical lines by making a ladder that led up to two drawings that start with the letter E. The kids also went on a hunt to find vertical and horizontal lines and sorted them into their workbooks.
As many families may know, we have been working our way through the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osbourne. We have been practicing how to use good listening ears, how to make predictions and how to make the pictures in our heads because these are chapter books that usually only have one picture per chapter. We just finished the 8th book and have now found all 4 things that were needed to free Morgan from the spell she was under. Finding out that Peanut the mouse was Morgan, leading Jack and Annie to the 4 items needed to break the spell, for the past four chapter books was quite surprising. Now we will be onto book 9 Dolphins at Daybreak.
And of course we played in leaves (while we still could), explored NoseHill Park and climbed some trees.
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