Thanksgiving Feast!

Today was our Thanksgiving Feast! We sat together with our homemade placemats. Each placemat showed one thing the students were thankful for. Then, we ate turkey and all the trimmings!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with friends, family and lots of love! :)

Scholastic Book Order

For those of you that are interested in ordering from this month's Scholastic book order that was sent home last week, here is the link to the online ordering page:

Scholastic Book Ordering

Simply click the link above, and sign in! If you have not ordered online before, you will need to set up a free account (just an email address and password). The site will ask you for a Class Activation Code. Ours is:

2IHNG

Ordering online is great because I get to pick free books to put in the classroom library for the students. :) If you have any trouble, please feel free to email me. Orders are due by this Friday!

Veterans Day

To celebrate our veterans, the students and I spent some time Thursday and Friday discussing how important it is to thank our veterans for all that they do. We read a few books about veterans and created a chart about what veterans are, what they have, and what they can do. We also did a directed drawing of a soldier.

 

 

 

 

Here's our little army of soldiers:

 

We glued our soldiers to construction paper and filled the extra space with adjectives to describe a soldier. They came out great! Thank you to our veterans for all that you do to keep us safe!

Hat Day and Election Learning

Today was crazy hat day! Check out these great hats:

In social studies this week, we have been learning all about the election. Today we studied the two candidates running for President: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney (or as many of the students were calling him, Mint Romney!). We read information about each candidate and created these bubble charts together:

The students took some time to write their favorite facts about each candidate on their own bubble maps.

 

After we learned about the two candidates, we discussed how a venn diagram can be used to compare characteristics of two people or things. Using a large venn diagram, we played a little game. I read facts to the students and they told me where each fact belonged. They were so into this and really impressed me with how much they had already learned!

 



Finally , I let the students work with partners on their own venn diagrams. The students used their bubble maps to fill in their graphic organizers.

 

 

Here's just a few more pictures of us working on election activities during our literacy center time. At Work on Writing, some students were writing about what it would be like to be President for the day. At Work Work, the students were using the letters in "Election Day" to build 2, 3, 4, and 5 letter words.

Have a great weekend!