Literacy Stations

These students love going to Literacy Stations.

This week we are working on spelling our sight words.

 



Fall Tree

At the beginning of the year we went outside and found a tree to adopt.  The idea is to watch this tree all year and see it change.

Well the week before the Thanksgiving Holiday is still had  ALOT of green on it so I did not take the students out to see it.

Then on the Saturday that we had off for Thanksgiving the foliage just changed over night.

So I rushed up to the school and took of a picture of our now very fall tree and hoped that the leaves stayed on until we got back.

 Well I was not so lucky because when we got back

to school this is what we found.

Star has arrived

Here Joshua reads us our note from Star.

Where will he hide each day?

Happy Birthday Jett

First Grade Turkey Program

Today we got to go to the cafeteria and see First Grade Performance of Thanksgiving Songs.

Earning Feathers

Earning Feathers this week was a fun twist to our

learning about The First Thanksgiving.

For the most part everyone can write their name in upper and lower case letters, recite their phone number and know their birthday.

But tying shoes was the stress of the week.  They practiced all week then when the big day was here they were hilarious.

Since this is such a developmental skill everyone got a feather that said either tied my shoes or learning to tie my shoes.

I think this is going to be my favorite picture of the year.  They worked together either complementing their friend for a good job or trying to help their friend tie their shoe.  Priceless.

 

Turkey Talk Skyping

Today we skyped with a Kindergarten class room in Waxahachie Texas.  They had made disguised turkey's so they would not be eaten.  So they shared with us.  We had read the book Turkey Trouble and written Save a Turkey Eat more ________ so we shared with them.

Sometimes I think the teachers get a bigger kick out of skyping than the students.