Phonics - This week we learned our first glued sound - all.  We learned how to tap out glued sounds by "gluing" our fingers together.  We worked on dictation this week.  We learned about quotation marks while talking about our new trick word - said.

Turkeys - This week we made these awesome turkeys that are now hanging from our ceiling.  They are so cute!  The body of the turkey is made by tracing your feet.  The feathers of the turkey are made by tracing your hands.  It's a lot of work - and such an adorable outcome!  It's my favorite project of the year!

Reading - Our word work center is all about Thanksgiving.  Some of the activities to choose from are cloze activities with Thanksgiving poems, putting Thanksgiving poems in order on note cards working on Thanksgiving word searches and activities, making words out of the letters in Thanksgiving, and putting Thanksgiving words in ABC order.  In word work, they students may also practice their spelling words.  They can practice with wikki sticks, magnetic letters, letter stamps, play-doh, or by rainbow writing their words.
One of the writing centers is making thankful turkeys.  The students are writing things they are thankful for on turkey feathers and then making a turkey out of the feathers.
We use centers - our daily 5 time - so that we can have reading groups.  While the students are in a reading group, the other students are working in one of the daily 5 centers.

Math - Group 1 has been using counters to add equations.  They have  been working on tiny tumblers with their math mountains.
Group 2 is working on story problems.  They are reading the problems and deciding if they addition or subtraction.  They have to figure out where the missing number is - it may be a partner or a total.

When the students are not in group, they are working in centers.  Here's Valeria working on this center.  The spider body has a number.  Then you need to find eight equations (the legs) that equal that number.

Science - This week we learned about clouds.  We learned three types - stratus, cirrus, and cumulus.  We are coming to the end of the weather unit.  We'll have a short test next week.  Then we'll start working out of our social studies book.

Writing - This week we are working on turkey stories.  The book is the shape of a turkey!  The first page is the cover page.  The second page has a cloze activity (fill in the blank) about a turkey.  The third page is a blank story - ready to be written by a first grader!  The students were told they needed to have at least three sentences.  They needed to start the story with a capital letter, use good spacing, and end with punctuation.  I am blown away at the stories that are being written!

Religion - The title of this week's chapter is God shares his life with us.  We have been learning about the sacrament of Baptism in this chapter.

And as always - a few pictures of morning tubs -