Happy Friday! We had an awesome week with having two field trips! The kids always love getting to ride the school bus. 😊 Thanks to our parent chaperones for coming with us. We will have two more field trips this year...Discovery Place and Gem Mining! We are excited to celebrate Thanksgiving next week and talk about all of the things we are thankful for.
We are planning on having a Thanksgiving Feast for the kids on Tuesday so no need to send in lunch on that day. The menu will consist of mac and cheese, green beans, corn, cornbread, and homemade butter (that we are going to make from heavy whipping cream in class)!
November 21st - 23rd: No school...Happy Thanksgiving!
December 20th - January 2nd: No school...Winter Break
January 17th 10:00 AM: American Heroes Play
Math:
Our math time was shortened this week due to our two field trips but we still got some place value practice in! Students are improving in their ability to express numbers as tens and ones. We are playing many place value games to practice this skill.
Literacy:
Students are doing great with our word study program! They are learning new rules each week so they can apply them when writing during Daily 5. After winter break, we will increase to 10 words each week instead of 5. It will be even more important then to have your child write their words in the "best" column and practice the words doing fun activities.
Thematic:
We studied Mia Hamm and soccer this week during thematic centers. We learned about the rules of soccer, who Mia Hamm is, and got to hear from the FSU girl's soccer team captain! The students loved hearing her talk about her experience playing for Florida State and also professionally for a year. Thank you Melissa Rieser for coordinating this! We learned that soccer balls have both hexagons and pentagons and students created their own paper plate soccer ball by tracing and cutting out these shapes. We also made our own life-size soccer players! Students got to create a team name and logo/mascot. They turned out really well!
Have a great weekend!
Love,
Mrs. James
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