Thankful Turkeys

These little K-1 turkeys (ha!ha!) have A LOT to be thankful for! They had so much fun making these adorable turkeys today and I was so impressed with their fabulous "brave spelling" to write the words of five things they were thankful for! WOW!!!!! They had so much fun coloring the turkeys and watercolor painting the feathers! These little turkeys are just too cute!

Thank you veterans for your service!

In honor of Veteran's Day today, we learned all about what this wonderful holiday is and why we celebrate it. We watched a short movie that gave my kindergarten friends a lot of important information to understand the meaning of Veteran's Day. We also had an all school Veteran's Day assembly and it was so fun to see all the pictures Olive families sent in who had vetereans in their family. We have a few veterans in our class. The kids were so excited to see their family member recognized during the assembly. We are very, very thankful to all those men and women who served for our country! Thank you! This afternoon, We made veteran's day crowns and I did a following directions art project where we made the American flag. My kindergarten friends LOVED making their flags today and they did a great job following my step-by-step directions until their flags were complete. When they were done, a lot of my friends held their flags up with HUGE smiles in excitement to show me their amazing flags. I was SO proud of how well they all did on them! Way to go, K-1!

Wow....AMAZING writing K-1!

In class today, I have seen how much my kindergarten friends are growing as readers so I decided to take their writing a step further by asking them to begin labeling their pictures when we are journaling during our writing block and start to begin writing words on their own to reading responses. Today we read a informational text with our HMH program called Places In Our Community. As I read the book to them out loud we had a wonderful class discusion about what a community is and what community helpers we have in Arlington Heights where they live. They had many great examples and we talked a lot about places they like to visit in our community. When we were done reading the book, I asked the class to do a reading response sheet where they drew a picture of what they thought the most important place in the community was and write the name of it on the lines below it to complete the sentence. I was so very, very impressed with their drawings and their "brave spelling!' They ALL did AMAZING! As I walked around as they were drawing and writing, I saw huge smiles on my kindergarten faces as they realized they could spell the words on their own sounding out the words how it sounded to them. I was so beyond proud of them and I LOVED all the detailed pictures they drew too! Way to go, K-1!

What a week!

We have had so much fun this week learning in kindergarten! I am so beyond proud of how much my kindergarten friends are growing as readers and writers. They are doing such a wonderful job reading and writing words on their own with the learned sounds from our HMH program. Way to go, K-1!

Since it's the begining of the month, we made our November calendars. The class always love making these calendars to see what is happening both in our class and at Olive for the month. They did such a wonderful job following my step-by-step directions in making their turkeys!

In math, I am teaching them about the concepts of "more than" and "less than" when comparing two groups together. They are doing an excellent job learning this new concept and applying it on their own when they work on the workbook pages. Way to go, K-1! In science, we are continuing to learn about the weather. They like being scientists!

Today we read a book called My Friends from our HMH literacy program. It was such a cute story about a little girl who learned various skills, movement, and life lessons from people or animals in her life. To go along with it we did a cute activity where they created the little girl at the top with a following directions activity and on the bottom they got to draw and write about something they learned from someone in their life. I was AMAZED by all their fabulous drawings and the ideas they came up with. WOW!!! My kindergarten friends are learning so much and growing more and more each day as learners. It is so much fun to see the growth they are making and how much fun they are all finding in learning!