Thankful Turkeys

Today we read, Taylor the Thankful Turkey which was about a Turkey who visits his neighbors to share his appreciation and gifts with love on Thanksgiving. This book had a wonderful message where the turkey set a great example by encouraging others by his example simply by exchanging gifts and kind words with one another. As Taylor visited each of his friends, his behavior traveled around the town and set a good example for all of those living in it. After we made Thankful Turkeys that the class got to write four things they are thankful for (one on each feather). They LOVED making the turkeys today and they did a fabulous job following my step-by-step directions! I loved seeing the smiles and pride in their faces as they held up their finished turkeys! It was so ADORABLE and I was so excited to hang them in the hallway for all of Olive to see and admire! Way to go, K-1!

Happy Veteran's Day!

Happy Veteran's Day, everyone! Today, we learned all about why we celebrate Veteran's Day and what it meant to honor and celebrate all those who served and fought for our freedom! We made "Thank You" cards for the veteran's in our community and we also made a paper american flag which was a following directions activity. The flags had so much glue that I kept them to dry for tonight. My kindergarten friends are excited to bring them home tomorrow! Thank you to all of you in the Olive community who fought for our freedom and served in the armed forces! We thank you for your bravery and service!

Happy Turkey Month!

With it being the first week of November, we made our November turkey calendars. When we make our monthly calendars, there are so many skills involved in putting it all together and I am impressed how much they have all grown as learners when we do this BIG projects. They did a great job writing in the missing numbers the correct way and cutting all the pieces to put it all together! When they were done, they were so PROUD of how they turned out! They look FANTASTIC!! WOW!!! Here are some pictures of the class with their calendars:

In math last week, we started Chapter 4 learning the comcept of "more than" and this week we have continued learning more about it. On Friday, we moved on to learning about "less than." My kindegarten friends LOVE math and the challenge of working with numbers learning many different fun concepts. Way to go, K-1!

In our structured literacy block of the day, we are continuing to learn more letters and sounds and continue plugging in what they have learned to read and write words on their own. I am so excited about how well they are decoding unknown words and encoding words when writing! It is SO FUN!In our reading block in the afternoon, we are continuing to learn about main events of a story and also working on identifying the characters and setting. They are having fun with our HMH read alouds and showing me what they have learned with each story. In our foundational skills part of the lesson we are learning about concepts of a sentence such as types of punctuation and what that means to the reader. We are also learning about how words are made up of a group of letters and how spaces between words show where words stop and start. We have learned that sentences are made up of words and spaces. We have practiced writing sentences together and ensuring we are writing complete sentences. We have also had the challenge of learning about pronouns too and the class is doing a great job identifying prounouns in given sentences. In some lessons, I have asked them to replace words in a sentence with a prounoun that I could swap it for. For example: Mom and I like music. In this sentence they could swap out Mom and I with the pronoun we and now the sentence would be We like music.

In science, we have been learning all about weather. They are doing a great job being little scientists and recording what they have learned in each lesson in their science journals. They are loving the hands-on experiences they are getting learning science such as making a windmill and windsock to learn about wind. Science has been so much fun! They are growing so much as learners and it's amazing! Have a great weekend, everyone!

Happy Halloween

It was such a fun Halloween today in K-1! In class today, we had a parade and Halloween party. This morning they did a great job with a Halloween write around the room activity with a partner and we also learned the letter "Ll" today in phonics. They had a fun morning! When the kids had lunch and came back for the afternoon, I had so much fun greeting all my kindergarten friends and seeing them all dressed in their adorable Halloween costumes! They all had so much fun parading around the school and participating in some Halloween fun at our classroom party! A HUGE thank you to our wonderful Room Reps that organized and planned such fabulous party and the parents that helped today! THANK YOU! It will be a day my kindergarten friends will always remember! Happy Halloween, everyone and be safe tonight trick-or-treating! 

Here are some fun pictures from our morning Halloween fun: