Crazy November

We crammed a lot into this week!!  I think we learned a lot and had a lot of fun at the same time!  We are learning a lot about Native Americans.  Some of us are still trying to make the connection that they are the same as Indians.  We read a couple of books by Tomie DePoala - The Legend of the Bluebonnet and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.  We also read a little article about Native American Powows and watched a little you tube video of one.  We made a project for the big bulletin board in the hallway based on The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.  We drew some Native American words/symbols on a piece of buckskin (aka brown paper bag) and then outlined them with chalk.  They turned out great!!

We also made some ten turkeys.  We are working on learning the sums of 10 so we incorporated a little Thanksgiving in with our learning and made the cute turkeys!!  

If you didn't know this, we spend some time dancing in our classroom!!  We do this to get the wiggles out and get our brains ready to learn!!  Here are a few that we are dancing to this month:

A little Holiday fun!!

A few math songs

some reading songs

And some just plain fun songs!!

I am looking forward to meeting with you at parent teacher conferences.  Hopefully you received your child's report card on Friday with your conference note.  I have a couple of technology things that we are doing in class that you can be doing at home.  I can't wait to show you some of the apps we are using too!!

I hope that you have receive the note about parent pick up changes!!  Please note that this is for your child's safety and the safety of everyone!!  Starting next Monday, November 18th, if your child gets picked up, you will find them in the elementary lunch room.  I am no longer going to have students waiting at the office for you to pick them up.  ALL of my pick up students will be walked to the lunchroom by me.  Thanks for your support on this!!

Happy Halloween!!

We had fun in math this week with some patterning.  Some of us even wore our shirts with patterns!  Here's a look at what we did.

We had a great time at our Halloween Party!  I loved all the costumes!!  We were stuck inside all day because of the rain, but we survived!!  Here is a glimpse at what we looked like:

The scary costumes!

The critter costumes!

The super hero costumes!

The princess costumes!

The career costumes!

The cute costumes!

The whole gang!

Now that it's November, we will be learning all about the Native Americans and Pilgrims who started the holiday we call Thanksgiving.  We will also be learning about Veteran's Day!