11/11-15/19

• 11/02: Garden Clean Up (8:00 am- 12:00 pm)
• 11/05: NO SCHOOL Election Day
• 11/07: Chic-fil-A Night (5:00-8:00 pm)
• 11/12: Papa John's Pizza Night
• 11/15: FBI Breakfast (7:00-7:45 am)
• 11/19: Thanksgiving Lunch (11:20-11:50 am) Parents are welcome to come enjoy lunch in cafeteria with their students. If you can come please arrive a few minutes early if you want to purchase a lunch for $4. 
• 11/25-29: Thanksgiving Break! Don't forget to participate in the reading challenge.

I am wanting to do a compare and contrast lesson on pumpkin and apple pie. I wanted to ask if anyone would like to donate a pie. I am thinking 2 pumpkin and 2 apple should be enough to give every student a small slice. With that being said I would also like to see if anyone would like to donate plates and napkins. If you can just let me know! I would like to have them by Thursday if possible. I appreciate all of your kindness in donating this year! 

This week we read Pete the Cat The First Thanksgiving. The first day we did a look through and discussed the different settings we seen in the story. Some were inside, some were outside. Students had to draw a picture of a setting and write a sentence on whether it was inside or outside. We also worked on some vocabulary (Pilgrim and Mayflower). Students had to write the words, the definition we came up with, write a sentence with the word, and draw a picture. We also worked on the beginning, middle and end. Something new we did this week in reading is writing about what the main idea was (Thanksgiving), and writing the supporting details (how did the story tell us about the main idea). We worked together as a class discussing the main idea, and supporting details. Then students worked on a sheet drawing and writing about the main idea and the supporting details. And, today for a little fun we made a Pete the Cat Pilgrim!

In math this week we continued on working on comparing numbers. Which group has more? Which number is less? Are they equal? Students had to identify groups that had more or less with different objects. Ten frames, groups of animals, fingers on hands, etc. Students also worked on counting objects and writing the numbers independently. Next week we will be starting some measuring activities. 

In writing this week we learned and wrote about Veterans (Veterans Day). We first read a book called My Mom is my Hero. Then we wrote some words we learned from the story, and discussed the difference between super heroes and real life heroes. Students also worked on building a sentence about when Veterans Day is. We made a flip book about Veterans Day, and made a can/are chart about soldiers. On Friday we did a listen and draw a Veteran activity, as well as writing a thank you note to a soldier.