Thanksgiving week

Our Thanksgiving week was spent enjoying our new table top centers, working on our thankful lists, drawing our families and making a giant fruit bowl and homemade butter. 

 

New challenges for our table top centers 

More disguised turkeys  

I always love recording their answers to hard questions like, "Where will you get your turkey and how will you cook it?"  Great answers to keep for memories. :) 

Reading our color words-great work buddy! 

Cute girls posing with their finished puzzle 

We shook a jar of whipping cream around and around the circle until we made butter 

Then we made our fruit bowl. We ended up with the biggest bowl of colorful fruit!! Thank you, thank you!

Yummy! 

Our butter thickened up and was ready! 

We loved the homemade butter and bread. It was a wonderful little Thanksgiving gathering among friends. :)

Turkey Week

Gobble gobble! This week we had fun with our theme turkeys to get us ready for Thanksgiving.  We also got to enjoy all of the new items in the minds in motion room!  Thank you so much for your donations to our school at the fall festival.  Our new classroom items will be arriving this week!

We LOVED seeing all of the creative disguised turkeys that were sent in for family homework! 

Some of our new activities in the minds in motion room 

We also started new table top centers for our morning work.

Look how well we listen during carpet time. 

We can follow step by step directions for drawing turkeys.  Great work friends! 

Dinosaur Week

Between the roaring and stomping, we had a classroom of dinosaurs this week!  We loved reading all about the dinosaurs and learning how big they actually were. We didn't think we'd want a dinosaur to come to school with us anytime soon. :)

This group is spinning and rolling a dice to decide what color they will write their new sight word, "go" with.   

The easel was very busy this week with painters. 

The sensory table was a hit with dinosaurs, noodles and scoops. 

Painting what would become our dinosaurs later in the week.

We added triangles to the backs of stegosaurus to make a pattern. 

We love working with Mrs. Traci 

Look at this big structure 

Our book this week had us reading our color words to figure out what color each dinosaur should be. 

What a great pattern!

One day we enjoyed partner puzzle time.  They loved working with a buddy on huge floor puzzles and I was amazed at how well they did!  Awesome job friends!! 

We added our leaves to our hallway tree saying what we are thankful for.  From our mommies and daddies to Legos, we have a lot to be thankful for! :) 

We cut apart sentences with sight words we've been learning to read, and put them back together.  We were so proud we could read these to our teachers and friends (and hopefully you!). 

Roar!! 

We also colored a dinosaur based on shape and color.  We sure are smart!  Next week our theme is turkeys! Gobble, gobble, gobble. :)