An Attitude of Gratitude!

Hello, generous K/1 parents! Thank you for providing brown bags, craft supplies, and signing up for food for our Stone Soup activity his coming Tuesday. Please check your child's green folder. There you will find details about what you can bring for our Thanksgiving celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 24th at school. This is not the same as the Harvest Dinner at Faith Baptist church tomorrow at 11:00 am. I am hoping to see you there! The kiddos have been practicing their songs for the celebration!

We have been discussing thankfulness and listing our blessings. We have had some writing prompts about what we are thankful for and these kiddos warm my heart with how grateful they are!

We started doing a rotation in math, and now have three math groups. It is very much like the Daily 5 rotation we do for reading. Soon we will be adding "Math With Writing" and "Math With Technology" to our "Math With Teacher", "Math With Someone" (math centers) and "Math By Myself" (math independent work and math facts at desk). By doing this, I have additional math time with each group, more one-on-one time with students, and it allows for greater differentiation within the instruction. Math centers can be unique to the learners' needs and encourage creative thinking in math, often elaborating on the concept introduced and coming up with unique ways to represent numbers and math problems.

Speaking of gratitude, we are so thankful for the Mrs. Lee/Mrs. Palmer bunch! They delivered notes to students in our Hive, demonstrating our Fruit of the Spirit in November, by spreading JOY!

And we are thankful for Ms. Jones' class too! We made a project with them that we will be wearing to our Thanksgiving Stone Soup gathering on Tuesday. We used Native American symbols and told our own stories through pictographs.

 I have to give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to our Busy-Bees!!! Every single one of them mastered their sight words this week. I gave a final assessment of this on Friday, and they blew my mind! Keep up that practice at home, it is paying off!

Next week will be all about Thanksgiving! We will focus in on our Novel Study of Thanksgiving on Thursday with some character and vocabulary lessons, doing some fun Thanksgiving activities and having our Stone Soup Thanksgiving feast on Tuesday.

Some highlights from our week...