A Thankful Peek at our Week

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

The Native Americans and Pilgrims enjoyed their Thanksgiving feast together! 
They shared "friendship soup" and popcorn around the tables.

We made Native American vests and decorated them with symbols. 
We made headbands and decorated them with patterns and feathers.   



We practiced drawing Native American symbols together. 



Students enjoyed using markers to create Native American symbol drawings. 

We worked on graphing a variety of Thanksgiving pictures as we rotated around the classroom to count and graph. 

Students have been working hard to explore numbers during calendar time each day.  On our 66th day of school, we learned that the Pilgrims were on the Mayflower for 66 days!  What a cool coincident!  

We graphed our favorite Thanksgiving food.  Turkey was the most favorite and peas were the least favorite.  (I still love them even if no one else in my class does!) 



Students practiced mixing and fixing sight words and writing them on whiteboards quickly. Popcorn words are beginning to pop up everywhere we look in our classroom!

Students did a beautiful job creating these baskets of apples with Mrs. Janney in art class! 

We made Thanksgiving bracelets by reading a book that told us the story of Thanksgiving.  We added different color beads for different parts of the story. 

Students dressed up as Pilgrims and Native Americans and enjoyed a Thanksgiving Feast along the other Kindergarten class.

We made the "Friendship Soup" together as we talked about how the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to live off the land. 

These thankful kindergarteners would like to wish you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!   

Peek at the Week




Happy Veteran's Day!
We celebrated Veteran's Day with a special morning message. We discussed the importance of the men and women who have served our country and those who are still serving our country.  We read a book called Veteran's Day as we colored the pictures with accurate colors and discussed whether they were in the army, navy, marines, etc.   
We thank all of the veterans who have fought for our freedom so that we are able to come to school each day! 

Students participated in workstations around the room. 

Students got to use monster eyes to help them point to each word as they read a book about monsters. 

We counted Thanksgiving pictures and made tallies to show how many we counted.

We learned these popcorn words this week:  we go is
Students hunted for popcorn words in our morning message. 

We were excited to have 2 visitors in our class on Thursday!  We welcomed Ally St. Pierre and Danielle Ingram, seniors from Floyd County High School who also attended Check Elementary School.  They shadowed us for the day and helped us out with all of our activities.  We wish the two of you lots of luck in your future endeavors!   

Students enjoyed matching pictures to beginning sounds  and writing sight words on the Smart Board. 

We learned all about living back then and living now. We explored the way people lived long ago, what they wore, tools they used, and how they traveled.  We also compared those things with the way people live today. 



We love our class bunny rabbit, Lucky! 



Dawson Erchull was the first student in the class to bring in 25 boxtops!  He got to feed the boxtop monster and receive a lollipop!  Students are working hard to collect 25 boxtops and bring them to school.  Each boxtop is worth 10 cents for our school. 

We continue the month of November with thankful hearts! 

Goodbye October...Hello November!

We enjoyed popcorn, pretzels, and suckers.

Students went on a hunt around the room looking for sight word ghosts to read and write. 

We had a special visit from a group of 3rd graders.  They read to us There Was an Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything.

In guided reading groups we worked hard as we mixed and fixed sight words and practiced writing the words. 

Students read repetitive patterned books pointing to each word.  Students began taking reading bags home this week so they could read their books to their families.

Students learned how to make tally marks.  They played "Count the Tallies" with a partner. 

The SmartBoard was introduced in workstations.  Students practiced matching pictures to their beginning sounds.

We experimented with magnets around the room to find out which objects were magnetic and non-magnetic.

Magnet Fun

Students made a magnet craft by sorting pictures of magnetic and non-magnetic objects. 

We wished Mrs. Holman a Happy Birthday!  Students danced around as the birthday bear sang to her. 

We welcomed November with a new calendar book.  We are excited about having more thankful hearts this month! 

Students followed step by step directions to draw a mystery picture.  When they had completed each step, the turkey was revealed!  Also students and their families worked together on a homework project to decorate a feather for our Kindergarten turkeys.  Here's how they turned out! 


Mrs. Thomas' Kindercalves  have been mooing, "Eat more turkey!"