With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we focused on Native American literature this week . The children seemed to enjoy the stories and learned a lot about the Native American culture. These are four of the stories we read:
The children continued to work with writing the beginning, middle, and end of a stories using various graphic organizers. They also practiced verbally retelling the story using a Kagan strategy. I saw a lot of growth with their writing this week!
On Thursday, the children got to have a little fun with their writing. After learning about Native Americans from long ago, they tried writing using symbols instead of words to tell a story.
During math we have been working on plus and minus one. The children played a partner game where they rolled a dice took away 1 and put a counter on the board. The first to complete a row won!
We reviewed plus and minus one on Thursday. The children used playing cards and a plus/minus dice to create and solve number sentences and recorded the equations in their math journal.
Ms. Haga is a volunteer from a church partnership that comes every two weeks to volunteer in our class. The children read books from their independent book boxes with her for some extra practice.
Our class will be participating in the December CrestFest! Mr. Lacy learned that our class was working on kindness with our classroom tree. Later he discovered we have been doing top secret kindness missions throughout the school. Here is an example of a pack of happy notes we delivered secretly to "kindness bomb" another class. The children even came up with our code name! We will have our big reveal at CrestFest. :)