We have been very busy this short week, those three days flew by quickly! We have been working on so many different Thanksgiving-themed activities together in our regular education classrooms and our own. During calendar time yesterday, we discussed that we wouldn't be coming to school for a few days and taking a break with our families. It was hard to get this point across, they kept saying, "no, Mrs. Hughes, we have school tomorrow!" They just love school soooo much :)
Yesterday all of our fall-themed art work got sent home. Our turkey's that had patterned feathers, our large candy corn cutouts that the students sorted shapes into three categories (all color coded) to make a candy corn and of course tons of Thanksgiving work.
This week we worked on the story by Alison Jackson, "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie". I have made a large cut out of an "Old Lady" and she is life size! We read the story, re-told the story using velcro peices and putting them in our life-size Old Ladies belly. We had a blast. Then we used peices of the food from the story to work on beginning sounds, and then moved on to making our own book to take home to read to our families. I hope you enjoyed those books! I will upload photos of our "Old Lady" in another blog post.
After we charted our favorite foods, we counted, tallied, and wrote the numbers for our favorite food (Turkey won!). Then we graphed it on graph paper (to practice our graphing skills). We discussed most and least, and then got started on writing a Thanksgiving book about all the foods we like to eat! The students used the word cards to read the food, and then could take it off the white board and bring to their seat to help them write the word in their book. They then drew a picture of that food.
All of these activities I got from candokinders.blogspot.com as one of her freebies!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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