We Are Thankful!!

We have had a very awesome, busy week in Kindergarten.  We have been working hard to learn all about the very first Thanksgiving.  Mrs. Deaton read us a lot of books about the Pilgrims and Native Americans.  We also watched a great video on BrainpopJr about Thanksgiving.

To celebrate the first Thanksgiving, we had a feast in our classroom today!  Half of our class dressed up like Native Americans and half of us dressed up like Pilgrims. Mrs. Deaton and Mrs. Feller decorated our tables with our placemats we made last week.  Then, we ate a delicious meal together! During our lunch, we sang some songs and talked about different things we are thankful for.

"I am thankful for God." Alexandra
"I am thankful for my dad." Allison
"I am thankful for mama." Alfonso
"I am thankful for God and my mom." Brayson
"I am thankful for my dad and my mom and my dogs." Brenden
"I am thankful for the trees and the plants." Casey
"I am thankful for my four rabbits." Cever
"I am thankful for my mommy." Destiny
"I am thankful for my dog." Emmanuel
"I am thankful for my dad." Ian
"I am thankful for my cousin." James
"I am thankful for my teacher." Justin
"I am thankful for my teacher, my mom, my dad, and my sister." Kaitie
"I am thankful for my mommy, daddy and my dogs." Linkon
"I am thankful for Jesus and my mom and my dad." Lydia
"I am thankful for my brother." Manju
"I am thankful for my puppy." Oliver
"I am thankful for my turtle." Omar
"I am thankful for my mom and my dog." Riley
"I am thankful for my grandpa." Saatvik
"I am thankful for my mamaw." Taylor
"I am thankful for my mom and dad and my cats." Carolina

Mrs. Deaton and Mrs. Feller are very thankful for our class of amazing students.  They love us so much!

We learned a really cool game in Work Centers this week.  The game is called "Snake Sticks".  This is a game that the Pilgrim and Native American children may have played.  We got to play the game with a friend, which was really fun.  To play the game, you throw three sticks and count the number of points you get.  We keep score on a piece of paper.  It is a great game!

Another thing we have been talking about this week is TURKEYS!  Turkeys remind us of Thanksgiving.  We made sight word turkeys, did a sound sort on turkey feathers and practiced putting turkey numbers in order... that's just a few things we did with turkeys.  We even acted like turkeys by gobbling around our tables during Deskercise.  All the turkey activities were great!

In Daily 5, we are working on blending sounds together to read words. We are also practicing our sounds, our sight words and writing words correctly.

We got to do some extra special things this week.  One day, it was Cever's birthday.  We sang to him and celebrated together! Another day, we got to have a juice box and a bag of pretzels for snack!  Mrs. Deaton let us sit anywhere we wanted to eat our snack. We loved that.

This was definitely another fun week in Kindergarten.  We are working hard to have fun and get smarter every day! Kindergarten rocks!

Fall Friends

We can't believe that November is already here.  We are enjoying the Fall weather and are having a great time in school.  Our class is working very hard to get smarter every day.  We have been practicing our letters, sounds, sight words, numbers and much much more.  This week, we talked about Fall Friends.  We read some stories about owls and bats.  In Work Centers, we made an adorable owl and used candy corn for different parts of it. This was one of our favorite things we did this week. We wrote in our journals about bats and owls too.  Everyone did an awesome job drawing these things in their journal.  Mrs. Deaton is so proud of how well we are writing.

Since we talked about the letter Nn this week, we read the story "The Napping House".  After we read the story, we practiced retelling it.  We made our own house and put the characters inside the pocket.

We worked hard in Daily 5 this week.  Some of us did Read to Self.  Mrs. Deaton lets us get a book box and a stuffed animal to read with.  Some of us go to Writing with Mrs. Feller and some of us go to Book Club with Mrs. Deaton.  We are working really hard during Writing and Book Club. Another thing we do during Daily 5 is go to the Computers for iStation.  Today, we didn't go to iStation.  We went to Literactive and played some learning games.

"We went to Book Club with Mrs. Deaton." Kaitie
"I did Raz-Kids on the iPads. I read a book about a cow." Manju
"I went to Writing with Mrs. Feller.  I wrote about pilgrims." Riley
"We went to the computers for iStation." Casey
"I did Working with Words. I practiced my letters." Justin
"I did Working with Words. I practiced writing my sight words." Carolina
"I played ABC Bingo on the iPad." Destiny

Playing outside and in Free Centers are things we really love to do.  Mrs. Feller lets us play on Big Foot sometimes which is really awesome.  Today was Free Center Friday.  Guess what!! We got to go to three different Free Centers today.  It was a great day!

Next week we are going to learn about Thanksgiving.  We are going to talk about Pilgrims and Native Americans. We can't wait!