Time for Thanks!

This week we learned more about the first Thanksgiving.  The students wrote down items they would have brought on the Mayflower if they were Pilgrims long ago. They also made pilgrims and wrote something they have that Pilgrims did not.  They had fun comparing and contrasting their lives with the Pilgrims!

Charlie has a white board, but a pilgrim did not.

Zoe has a phone and a pilgrim did not.

They also learned about symbols and how the Native Americans used them.  They drew symbols to represent Weather, Food, Clothing, and Shelter.

Julian's shield

We practiced ABC patterns using three colors on our corn.  Check out our awesome corn stalks!

Growing patterns!

With the feathers the students designed for homework, we put together a Fancy Fancy Feathered turkey. Thank you for helping with this fun project!

Room 18's Fancy Feathered Turkey

Falling into Fall...

We had a lot of fun learning more about Fall this week.  We read and learned why the season is called, Fall! The students had many questions about leaves so we continued our investigation by looking for leaves outside.  Each student also had their hand traced and were asked what they are thankful for.  We created this beautiful tree of "thankful hands".

The students drew leaves and traced it with magic black glue!

Then they used watercolors to paint it Fall colors!  They sprinkled salt over the watercolors and were fascinated by the results!  They also worked hard on making patterns for the border of the paper.

We made these Q-tip Fall trees a math activity! The students counted to thirty for each color as they painted each "leaf".

Fall tree art

To practice our new sight words "is" and "are", we identified them in a book titled, Scarecrow Colors.  The students read familiar color words as well as their new sight words. They also made this fun poem, "Scarecrow, Scarecrow" and identified an old sight word, "you".

Jospehine's Scarecrow, Scarecrow poem

The students also practiced their new words as they wrote about their scarecrow art.

Drew wrote: Scarecrows are not scary. My scarecrow is funny.