Sterling's Snippets: Happy Thanksgiving to Your Family!

Greetings 1st grade families! I hope this blog post greets you enjoying time with your family and friends. Even though it was a short week, we still managed to cram in lots of fun and memories. We began our week learning a little bit about the history of Thanksgiving. We read The First Thanksgiving and watched a short video as part of our Studies Weekly curriculum. We then practiced retelling the story while making bracelets. Each color bead represented a different event in our story. Here is Connor showing off his work!

Next it was time to review verbs. We read the story Run Turkey Run and then came up with our own phrases using different verbs. We had some really cute ideas including: "Dance turkey dance, cartwheel turkey cartwheel and finally launch turkey launch. Below Hazel and Aubrey work on their Turkey Verbs project. The adorable projects are on display in our classroom right now!

Then it was time to work with non-standard measurement in math. Students used a turkey feather to measure objects around the classroom, including their partner. Below Coby, Aiden, Connor, Colton and Chace work on measuring.

In math we also played counting on Turkey Thump. Partners practiced rolling a numeral dice and a dot dice to add and count on with numbers up to 18. They covered a turkey feather with a candy corn and could "Thump" their neighbor off if a feather was occupied. Below Isaac, Nico, Tina, Coby and Brookelyn play.

We then read the story, Turkey Trouble, where a turkey decides to disguise himself so that he won't be eaten. Following the story, the students worked to disguise a turkey of their own. Below you will see turkeys disguised as a Ninja and Superhero.

In the midst of all of this Thanksgiving fun we had our November Character Assembly. The following students were recognized this month:

Exercise: Ella

Patriotism: Preston

Giving: Coby

Character Champion: Carter

Finally, our class learned about the real meaning behind Thanksgiving, being with the people you care about and spending time together. We watched A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and then had a Charlie Brown Feast of pretzels, popcorn, jellybeans and toast. The students each took turns sharing something or someone they were thankful for as we enjoyed our meal. YUM!