The First Thanksgiving!

Greetings! Happy Tuesday! Today was another day filled with Thanksgiving fun! We also did some regular learning, too. 

Today in Religion class we made our own Advent wreath. Before we did that we reviewed what we learned about Advent yesterday including the importance of the Advent wreath. Each student was given paper flames to cut and glue onto their wreath at home during the Advent season. 

We began Language Arts class by working in our literacy centers. From there we returned to our weekly learning. We practiced reading long i words. After that we learned our six new sight words. Following that we read a play titled Time to Grow. The students really did a nice job reading the play. Next we practiced using present tense verbs in sentences. Finally we wrote the final two steps in how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 

Today's Thanksgiving activities focused on the first Thanksgiving. We read about how Squanto helped the Pilgrims that first year, how bountiful their harvest was, and how the first Thanksgiving lasted three days. We created our own Thanksgiving story booklets, compared and contrasted Thanksgiving today to Thanksgiving back then, and wrote about what foods we like to eat on Thanksgiving. We added that writing to a pumpkin pie craft. 

In Math class today we practiced counting the numbers 11 to 20. First we identify a group of ten and then count on. The students are very good at this. 

Just a reminder that dismissal tomorrow is at 12:00!