A Thanksgiving Feast!

Greetings! Happy Thanksgiving Luncheon day! We really enjoyed our feast today. The students loved everything from decorating the table, to the meal, to the play. 

In between the feast, we had work to do in first grade. In Religion class today, we talked about how the people welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem. We learned that they waved palm branches and shouted 'Hosanna!'

In Language Arts class today, we learned new oral vocabulary words. We then practiced blending and reading words with digraphs sh, th, and -ng; we even used our letter tiles to spell words. Next, we learned how to blend and read words with closed syllables. After practicing our phonics skills, we switched our focus to reading. We reread Thump Thump Helps Out and discussed the characters, setting, and events in the story. We then read our decodable reader. We ended class by practicing finding common and proper nouns in sentences. 

In Math class today we learned how to tell time to the hour. We used our clocks to practice showing various times. 

We ended our day with Social Studies class. Today we focused on the Pilgrims. We read two stories about the life of a Pilgrim girl and a Pilgrim boy. We will continue our talk about Pilgrims next week. 

Here are some pictures. One is from our Mayflower lesson yesterday. The other shows our Thanksgiving table decorations. Enjoy!