The month of November was a hectic one, filled with holidays, parent conferences, Grandfriends' Day and lots of learning packed in.
Since my last post, we've celebrated Halloween, completed our Leaf Projects, molded and painted our world maps and learned about the first Thanksgiving.
In math, we've been practicing telling time to the nearest 5 minutes, measuring to the nearest inch and centimeter, and reviewing place value to 1,000. We'll begin our written facts tests when we return from Thanksgiving break.
Our reading minilessons have focused on inferring as we read. We'll continue this study through the month of December.
After finishing our spider reports, we began a review of grammar, specifically nouns and verbs. Have you heard the "Verb Rap" yet? We'll be performing it in December at our monthly Shindig. I'll be sure to post a video.
Remember the Square of Life Project? We met several times with our 4th grade friends to compare our squares with one from another state. Each group recorded their comparisons using a venn diagram, then used the PicCollage app to share their results and important pictures. You can view the project on our class site or by visiting the Student Gallery at the Square of Life Project at http://ciese.org/curriculum/squareproj/gallery/
Grandfriends' Day is one of Swasey's best-loved traditions! Our classroom was full of grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, and family friends. Everyone was busy after our Reader's Theater performance, as children and their grandfriends measured out ingredients for a turkey soup mix, played Gobble Bump, played Give a Dog a Bone on the Smartboard, illustrated a square for our Memory Quilt, created a vase of "flowers" and added a poem about grandfriends, and viewed turkey projects. It was a wonderful hour!
Below you'll find the Readers' Theater video "T'was the Night Before Thanksgiving" and a separate slideshow showcasing the month in our classroom.
I hope your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I hope your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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T'was the Night Before Thanksgiving Readers' Theater
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