The Hive : Thankful for Our Hive!

Hello, incredible K/1 parents! Thank you for "buzzing" by to find out what's happening in The Hive at Sonshine! Well, the bees are busy as ever and I am so proud of their diligent work! This week we have been studying about Veterans Day. We have also returned our focus to "Bucket Filling" and will put that into on Friday when we helped to put the Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes together! How exciting! Thank you for all of your help!

We listened to a story from Hebrews during chapel, and the students acted out Rahab and the spies. We practiced the songs we will be singing at our Harvest dinner at 11:00 am on November 22nd. If you haven't RSVPed to this event, please fill out and return the form that was sent home in our green folders. I am hoping to see all of you there!


Quiet spies...


Beautiful voices singing praise!

We did a fun writing activity in which students filled each other's bucket with words of kindness. The bees chose a random name of a classmate out of a bucket and wrote a note to that person. They made little "buckets" and distributed their notes. Some students wrote one to me, and I have to say that my bucket was overflowing! It was such an amazing activity, that it is going to become a part of our regular community life in the Hive!

Mr. Bob Dewitt came in for math centers on Monday! As a former special education teacher, he really has a big heart for helping students succeed!

We have a new seating arrangement! Ta-Da! The students are doing a fabulous job!

I saw a great idea online and made a hopscotch outside using our sight words! This is a fun activity you can also do at home! Students can read the sight word that their stone or stick lands on when they throw it! They can also read each one they hop on!

Help Needed!

There are a few items that we need for Thanksgiving projects coming up. If you could contribute any of the items, we would be ever-so-grateful.

Brown, grocery bags

Plastic pony-beads in a multitude of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, cream, white, and brown.

Pipe cleaners in any color.

In addition, we could really use some baby-wipes so students can clean their desktops during the day when needed. We are also going to start a "morning-classroom-helpers" routine in our classroom and these would be wonderful!

Please do not worry if you can't contribute the items listed above. There are other ways that you can help if you would like to. We need help on the Tuesday before our Thanksgiving break. We have planned a rotation of fun activities in our classrooms and a Thanksgiving feast! This will be on Tuesday, Nov. 24th from 9:15-1:00 p.m. From our Hive, we need "roots" vegetables to be brought in (we read about "roots" in Thanksgiving on Thursday). We will bring in prepared (clean, chopped) potatoes and carrots to go into our "stone soup" that will be served that day. In addition, we need lots of helping hands to assist with the activities planned in our classrooms (games and arts and crafts) as well as help preparing (cooking) the feast and setting the "tables". Please let me know as soon as possible if you can help in anyway! If you can come for just part of the time, that would be also be lovely and so appreciated! Thank you!

Our theme next week will be Thanksgiving as we continue our novel study "Thanksgiving on Thursday", which explore the first Thanksgiving and provides history about the Wamponoag people. We will do some fun activities in our Daily 5 reading time and in math centers such as a Thanksgiving "write-the-room" and "roll-a-turkey" in math centers. We will have a fun science experiment involving popcorn that will incorporate the mathematical concept of measurement!

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