I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Little Indians
On Tuesday we made indian hats and wore them all day. We decorated our hats with different indian symbols. We made pinecone turkeys and listed things we are thankful for on the feathers. We made bracelets with colored beads to tell the Thanksgiving story. We also learned about how the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims on the first Thanksgiving. We learned about Squanto and enjoyed a Squanto inspired snack. Here's a video of our day!
Little Pilgrims
We had some fun holiday inspired activities these past two school days. On Monday we made our pilgrim hats and wore them all day. They were a huge hit! Everything is more fun with a pilgrim hat on. :)
For math we had a probability lesson. We had 1 green, 2 red, and about 5 brown turkeys in our bag. We pulled 10 turkeys out of the bag and tallied our results. We then discussed our results. Here are a few pictures.
For math we had a probability lesson. We had 1 green, 2 red, and about 5 brown turkeys in our bag. We pulled 10 turkeys out of the bag and tallied our results. We then discussed our results. Here are a few pictures.
Matthew & Elias
Mary-Caroline & Taylor
Hannah & Jillian
Lew & Ryland
Alex & Elijah
Rufus & David
In reading workshop we learned about author's purpose and read a book about pilgrims. Then my little pilgrims read from their leveled books. Here are a few pictures of the awesome pilgrim readers.
We also made a cute Thanksgiving magnet to take home for the refrigerator. I hope they all made it home safe and sound.
Here's Victoria working on her magnet!
We also made the cutest pilgrim boys and girls and wrote about things for which we are thankful. Here are some pictures of the groups making the pilgrims.
The Red Group
The Orange Group
The Yellow Group
The Green Group
The Purple Group
The Blue Group
Here are a few of the finished pilgrims!
Elijah
Jackson
Taylor
Victoria
Emily's
Ella's
Victoria's
Trevor's
Jackson's
Last thing that day we had a Thanksgiving inspired snack. We made cupcake teepees. They were so tasty! Everyone enjoyed eating a little snack. Here's a video of the pictures.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Voting Treat
We have had a little more election fun! As we learned about what a ballot is and how you mark your choice, I gave the students something fun on which to vote. Each student got a ballot and voted on push-up or Popsicle. We then tallied the class votes to find a winner. This gave us a chance to learn what majority means. Popsicle was the majority vote, so we enjoyed this tasty treat on Tuesday. Here are a few pictures.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Class Election
In Social Studies, we have been learning about how to vote. To make our learning more hands-on we held a class election to find a class president. Then that president got to make a decision for all of us. To begin we made election posters. Here are our election posters. They turned out awesome! These "firsties" are so creative!
Everyone presented their posters to the class and gave an election speech. I must say, they all had great reasons why they would be a great class president. Then we setup our voting booths to turn our room into the poll. Each child took a ballot and voted for who they thought should be our new class president.
Rufus, David, & Maxwell
Lance, Hannah, Elijah, & Emily
Ryland, Alex, Victoria, & Xavier
Lynli & Mary-Caroline
Lew, Jackson, Ella, & Jillian
Trevor, Elias, Benjamin, Aubrey, & Taylor
Everyone presented their posters to the class and gave an election speech. I must say, they all had great reasons why they would be a great class president. Then we setup our voting booths to turn our room into the poll. Each child took a ballot and voted for who they thought should be our new class president.
Meet Mr. PRESIDENT!
Trevor won by a landslide! I guess the gumball machine worked like a charm. Everyone enjoyed a gumball from our new class president. He then got several choices as he made a big decision for the rest of the class. He got to choose from: a trip to the treat box for everyone, free learning stations, or extra recess. As he chose extra recess, the class cheered!
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