Weekly Update

Wow! This week was full of amazing art projects, math that blew my mind and of course lots of amazing writing. Check it out!

My Family

This week we focused on our families, how our families were the same, how they were different and why families are important. With this theme students drew a picture showing who lived in their house, many students reported that they wouldn't be able to fit their whole family in one picture :), so we decided to narrow it down to who we lived with! Then after drawing students labeled their pictures and wrote about it in a list format. I was so impressed with their amazing work and the details they included. Check them out:

My family has my mom and my dad and my brother and my baby sister.

In my family there is my mom and my dad and my brother and Milo!

My family has mom, dad and Jack.

Wants and Needs

In social studies this week we continued discussing what being thankful meant as well as looking at things in our life that we need versus things that we want. Students came up with some amazing examples and they even had quite the conversation about if a cell phone was something that we need or something that we want! Then students got to choose a need and a want to draw and write about. Check them out:

I want a cookie. I need a house.

I want a cupcake. I need water.

I want a princess dress. I need a house.

Sorry this post is so short this week. I am racing to get progress reports done before they go home on Friday! Thank you for sharing your children with me for yet another amazing week! The countdown has begun to Thanksgiving and then Winter Break. I can't believe how fast it is going but I am loving every minute!

Smiles,

Miss Adams

Halloween, Nutrition and Turkeys!

What a busy week we had this week. From starting our week with our Halloween Celebration and ending with gearing up for Thanksgiving we are full steam ahead until Winter Break! I can't believe how fast it is going but as the saying goes "Time flies when you're having fun" :)

Halloween Celebration!

After having a regular morning despite the costumes the kids were ready for some pumpkin themed fun! We started by reading The Monsters Monster which inspired our Frankenstein drawings that you will see below, then students got to rotate between 4 stations: water coloring our Frankenstein's, pumpkin pattern blocks and spooky forest coloring station and finally cotton ball ghosts! We finished off our celebration with "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" and of course some treats! Everyone had a great time!

Water coloring the Frankenstein's!

Spider pattern blocks.

Cotton ball ghosts!

Watching the video!

One of the finished Frankenstein's!

Nutrition

We have the wonderful opportunity to work with OSU's nutrition services who comes once a month to teach our class about feeding our bodies healthy foods and taking good care of ourselves. This week we talked about food groups and made "Food Group Friends." The students loved making their friends and counting how many different food groups they had used in their snack! Periodically I will be sending home information about what we are doing in class along with recipes and ideas for your to try at home!

Thankful Turkeys

With Thanksgiving right around the corner we have begun talking about what it means to be thankful. This week we made Thankful Turkeys that have items we are thankful for listed on the feathers. The students were AMAZING at coming up with what they were thankful for and took the project so seriously! I was very impressed and they turned out so well. I mean look at that writing! So great!

We are getting ready for progress reports by doing lots of assessments and of course more thanksgiving activities until Thanksgiving break! Can't wait to see what adventures we have next!

Smiles,

Miss Adams