23 November 2010

Thanksgiving, part two

More gobbling fun yesterday and today! One more day of school for the week – as long as the snow doesn’t stop us! (And in North Dakota, it NEVER does!)
We started off the week reading:
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Even though the pictures in this book are illustrations, we still decided that this is a non-fiction book because it gives us many interesting facts about turkeys!
We continued by making a tree map about turkeys:
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The children wanted to keep adding facts about the turkey long after we were finished! My favorite was turkeys are “yummy.” (I was thinking that, but a kiddo actually said it!”
We created this pie graph from Deanna Jump’s Thanksgiving Unit.  There is a student response page to go with this as well, but we didn’t get time to get to it! Bummer!
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One of our reading para’s did this activity with some of our kindergarten kiddos.
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Here are a few of our turkeys in disguise.  This was a family project that the children did.
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We read this book:
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We sequenced it as we read with our “large” old lady.  (the kids really got a kick out of her!!)
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Then we drew pictures of every thing she ate and sequenced it ourselves.
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We made special handprint poems for our mom’s and dad’s:
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(idea from a friend)

We read, “Where Is Mr. Turkey” from Kim Adsit’s Thanksgiving Pack and circled sight words.
And, we read this adorable book:
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We started this shared writing, but haven’t finished it yet!
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Phew….busy, busy days!!

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