Book Break

Gingerbread Baby Houses

Gingerbread Ways To Make 5

To play this game players close their eyes and choose five gingerbread from the bag. They put the gingerbread on a five frame and then record the number of boys and girls in an equation to make 5.

Thanksgiving Book Bin

We explored a new book bin in our classroom library. There are a variety of fiction and non-fiction books about Thanksgiving to choose from but I think our favorite is "A Plump and Perky Turkey."

Community Service

On Friday we went to the SHVFD to help decorate the station for their annual tree lighting ceremony. The kids did a great job and felt good about giving back to our community. 

Holiday Decorating

Writing Workshop Goals

We set individual goals today!

Turkey Word Hunt

Thanksgiving Venn Diagram

We Are Thankful

Guidance

Our guidance teacher Ms. Fisher has been teaching us about regulating our energy levels. We use the question "how is your engine running?" To gauge our levels. Too fast is when you have way too much energy, just right is when you have just the right amount of energy for the activity you are doing, and too slow is when you just don't have enough. Today we completed 4 different activities and compared our energy levels  after each activity. They were playing in shaving cream, using kinetic sand, blowing through a straw to move a cotton ball, and yoga. We found some helped to reduce our energy, some brought our energy level up, and some helped us get to "just right"

Morning Message

Air Writing

We partnered up and took turns choosing a familiar word to write on each other's backs. One partner writes while the other writes it in his/her back.

Super Powers

We are beginning to learn about reading superpowers! Today we learned about the power of the picture. Combine the picture and the print and you have a superpower! It helps you read tricky words!

Geoboard Shapes

To play this game players pick a card, complete "noticings",re-create the shape, and record the shape. This activity provided the opportunity to practice the following skills: 

Recognizing and naming shapes

Understanding how some of the common shapes are formed. 

Butterfly Race

Butterfly Race is a game that provides practice with a variety of counting skills including counting pictures in a set, reading numerals to 10, identifying the ordinal position of objects and composing and decomposing numbers from 2 to 10. To play players pick a 10 frame card, determine the quantity and move to the tree with the corresponding numeral. 

Pumpkin Investigation With The Seventh Grade