This week, we continued our November unit on Thanksgiving. We wrote why we are thankful and what it means. The students had it displayed in the hallway. We watched a National Geographic video on The Mayflower. The kids were very fascinated with the large ship. This is the second week of our new calendar routine and the students morning binder. They are doing amazing memorizing their months, days of the week, and numbers. The students were also introduced to arrays and place value. We began our Big Idea unit on Money. We all read "I Can Count Money" from Reading A-Z and integrated counting by 5's to count pennies to make the coin. This is good because they all know and will tell you the reason they need to count by 5's is to learn to tell time on an analog clock. I am very proud of all of their progress of memorizing and fluently counting. Our goal is for some of our students to count by 5 by Winter Break.
In Social Studies, we read "Duck for President." We learned about voting, rules, and even did a mock election in class. The students had to vote for Duck or Mr. Carroll. The students learned that what they put on the ballot was private and nobody's business. We tallied up the votes on the Smartboard and announced the winner. The winner was Duck.
We participated in the Scholastic Book Fair this week at KIS. The KIS PTO was generous enough to include Geauga ACHIEVE in allotting all teachers $50.00 to spend on books for the classroom. I was so humbled by the Kenston PTO's generosity and how much we are all included. We purchased National Geographic Meerkats, Animal Picture Books, Ripley's Believe it or Not, and Leveled Readers. I also wanted to thank The Lynden's for buying our class a book. Thank you so much. :)
This week we reviewed:
Word Wall: she, do, how, if, there - Read the High Frequency book "She will be".
Fall Word Wall: Pilgrim, Mayflower, feast, celebration
Reading: "I Can Count Money"
Phonics: welded words
Language Arts: Noun Sorts and will be introducing verbs.
Social Studies: Thanksgiving History and Election Day
Writing: "What am I thankful for?"
Math: Arrays, Counting by 5's, Money, Place Value
Science: Insects
Dates to Remember:
11/11 - Veteran’s Day
11/12 - Field Trip with KIS 5th Grade to Playhouse Square
11/13 - KIS PTO Mtg. 9:30 AM
11/18 - United Way Week
11/21 - Geauga ACHIEVE Movie Day
11/22 - APE Field Trip Swimming
11/27 - No School - Conference Break
11/28 - No School -Thanksgiving Day
11/29 - No School –Thanksgiving Break
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