Turkeys and Pilgrims

I hope you all got to read your child's Turkey Tale. They were great. Some of them cracked me up. The big turkey tail was made from your kids' footprints and hands for the brown feathers.

When this turkey word slider comes home on Tuesday, practice the words for our fluency test.

The students made these cute pilgrims and tried to visualize what they would do if they lived in pilgrim times. We read some amazing books by Kate Waters that helped them empathize with pilgrim children.

HALLOWEEN MATH GAMES AND COSTUMES

We had a great Halloween Math Party on Wed. Thank to our fantastic mom helpers, we played rotating math games all morning! Mrs. Elbel and Mrs. Hobson treated us to "Bloody Fingers" (wheat breadsticks with red dipping sauce) and apple juice. It was yummy and healthy. Our parade was extra fun too. What a lot of amazing costumes!

Leaf Animals

The leaves came out of the leaf press and the children glued them onto a watercolor wash that they painted last week. They are amazing LEAF ANIMALS.

Math Problem Solving Journal

About once a month, we do a big problem for our math problem solving journal. We discovered that we needed 55 black sticker dots for our Ten Black Dots book. We also found out that Mrs. Garber had to buy 1,375 dots for the whole class to do this project.

Let's Be"Leaf" in Trees

We had a wonderful lesson on leaves and trees. We were scientists and we labelled, sorted, and observed the different attributes of the leaves that I collected last week. We did some leaf rubbings, leaf prints with paint, a leaf poem, and we made leaf animals. We learned what comes from trees and why they are so imortant to our survival.

Zion Reunion

This weekend my husband and I drove to Zion National Park for our reunion. Zion is 100 years old. We met there 40 years ago as summer employees. I was in charge of contacting people from all over the country and we got 300 people there. It was a magical weekend of connecting with our dear friends. We had so much fun in the perfect fall weather.

Autumn Art

Did you like all the patterns on the scarecrows? This was my mother's project for her 1st grade, which I have adopted for 30 years. I think of her each year that I sent the kids out the door with scarecrows in hand. We created a Great Pumpkin Patch in the hall. Please practice the words on the witch word slider that went home last week. Our goal is to have the children each read the words in less than one minutes. They are words from our homework sheets. Our fluency test will be on Wednesday.