Happy Thanksgiving !
Our Thanksgiving Finger Feast was a great success. With all of the food we
had we could have celebrated for 3 days as they did at the First
Thanksgiving.
It was great to meet with everyone at conference time. It is always so nice
to meet face to face and be able to let you know how your child is doing and
what we are doing in our class.
In reading we have worked on the letters Gg, Oo, Uu and Ll. Having
introduced all of the vowels now will give us so many more words to
blend/sound out. More word lists will be coming home, please help your child
work on these.
Ms. Goesch is now doing the math program and doing a fantastic job. She
really gets the kids involved and thinking.
For Social Studies we have learned about what it was like to be a Pilgrim and
all of the hardships that they had to endure. I think the kids are grateful
that they don’t have to do all of the chores that the Pilgrim children had to
do. We also learned about the Wampanoag Indians and how they lived and the
important role that they played in the Pilgrims lives. We even learn the
Wampanoag’s word for hello, “K Way”.
I want to welcome Maura Goesch our student teacher from Mount Mary
College. She will be with us for the next nine weeks and we are excited to
have her in our class. Ms. Goesch has only been with us a week and
already has a wonderful rapport with the children.
We have finished our second set of letter sounds and the children have
brought home their sound book and the second list of words for blending.
We have gone over the list in small groups and everyone did a great
job. A third list will be coming home soon. Please take the time to have
your child sound out the words and even try writing them for you. We'll start
our next set of six letters later this week.
In math we continue to work on number sets 5-10. We are looking at money
recognizing the nickel as a set of 5 and adding pennies to create different
combinations to ten.
We have finished talking turkey. Ask your child what they have learned,
like where they sleep and what the baby turkeys are called. Did you know
that Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird? I'm glad we
went with the Bald Eagle. This week we will talk about the Pilgrims journey
and how different life was back then and compare it to how we live.
The Halloween Party was a great success, I am only sorry that I was home
sick and had to miss it. Within the next day or so I will get our class group
shot down loaded. A big THANK YOU to Mrs. Campbell for giving everyone a
group shot and a photo of their child in costume.
