Back at it

What a week! I didn't want to start the Christmas stuff until November was officially over :) This week we've been working on "My" books- my house, my city, my state, my country, my continent. The kids loved it! Every day they were asking, "Is it time to work on my book yet?" until they finally completed them yesterday.

We talked about different land and water forms using books and making models out of play dough. Another big hit! I wonder if my elementary teachers had used play dough to explain land and water forms... maybe I wouldn't have hated social studies so much!

The first graders also worked on making fractions and comparing fractions. So far they have noticed that 1/2 and 2/4 look the same and 1/4 and 2/8 look the same.

We're working on learning about contractions. I think it's going to take a LOT more work before we get through this!

We wrote about our favorite events from Thanksgiving break for writing workshop. This was the kindergarten kids' first time through the editing process and I think it went pretty well.

Last Week Before Thanksgiving

What a fun week! Our walls were covered in turkeys and Pilgrims. I'm so sad to see the bare walls since I took everything down and sent it home with them today. Here is some of what we did:

Feather Fractions: We traced the kids' feet and cut them out. Then they picked feathers to glue on. They wrote the fractions of colors.

We read Turk and Runt by Lisa Wheeler and then discussed good places for a turkey to hide where people would not think to look for them. Their pictures were so cute :)