November Blog Update 2013

I am finally updating our class blog starting with where I left off in November :)
Here are lots of pictures from November...enjoy!
Check out the cute pictures of our friends practicing how to retell stories to each other.  That is what good readers do!

To sum up our fact family unit in math, we made Rockets to blast off to fact families...they were so cute! 

We practiced labeling things in our classroom with our new "possessives" lesson.  We had fun making sure everyone knew whose things belong to who...

Working on illustrating places that are in our community...schools, museums, libraries, police/fire stations, & roads.

 2nd Graders created floats for a "Macy's Day Parade" for our school, our sweet friends sat in the hallway so patiently and were so respectful as the 2nd graders "floated" on by.

Brayden was our very first friend in our class to fill up both sides of his behavior clip.  He gets to take this one home and is starting on a new clip :)

Check out our sweet "Native Americans" for our theme days before Thanksgiving!

Check out our friends creating their "Thanksgiving Bracelet"s to help them remember the story of the First Thanksgiving!

A little bit of this and a little bit of that!

We've been BOOOOOOed...

When we returned from Related Arts one day, we had been Booed...with this note....a banner blocking our door, candy and ghosts and pumpkins all over our room!  We then Booed another class....we still don't know who Booed us....hmmm?

Pumpkins on chairs

Ghosts on our Behavior Chart

We also decorated and wrote Christmas Cards for the Troops overseas that wouldn't be able to come home for Christmas.  Our friends did a GREAT job at making them feel special.  I cannot wait for the soldiers to receive our letters!

During our Writing Workshop, we read a story, Max's Words, and made our own word collections from magazines, newspapers, etc.  and brought in our collections to use in our writing.  Everyone had a great time using their interesting words to write with...check them out!

Lucas

Blaine

Makarley

Elijah & Mason

Elizabeth

Jake

Mrs. Jones also came by to talk to us about our character trait of the month, Honor.  

We ended our Maps Unit in Social Studies by creating edible maps...pretzel sticks for roads, m&m's and skittles for cabins, houses, etc., choc. chips for mountains, blue sprinkles for the lake...it was yummy learning!