Thank You (and some pumpkins, too!)

First and foremost, I need to say thank you.

 

Working at an air force school and teaching the children of the men and women of the armed forces is an amazing thing.  The children that I teach sacrifice so much every day.  I am so proud to be able to be their teacher.  Hearing our students sing, “I’m Proud to Be an American” and “God Bless America” to their parents this week and seeing so many parents in the audience in uniform brought tears to my eyes.  What an an amazing group of people.  Thank you for your service and for protecting our freedom. 

 

Now on to the goodies! I feel like October flew by!  My camera has been stuck in my bag, and I haven’t taken it out! I have forgotten to take so many pictures – so here is what I have of our pumpkin unit!

The first few activities are from Julie Lee’s pumpkin pack:

  The children picked a word, read it, and wrote it two more times.

This one was a bit tricky for some kiddos, so I gave them an alphabet strip to match the letters.  They put each set in ABC order and then wrote the letters.

The children picked an item from the bucket and wrote the beginning sound on their pumpkin.

The children spun the spinner, counted the pumpkins and wrote the number on a pumpkin.

At this center, the children practiced matching the number word to the number.

The next pictures are activities that I created.

The children counted the dots (seeds!) on the pumpkin and matched the pumpkin to the correct number and wrote how many seeds were on that pumpkin.

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Sequencing Teen Numbers

The children match the CVC word to the picture and then wrote the word again on their response sheet. 

And the weekly pocket chart activity.

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Happy Friday!

and the words for the sentence strips:

And a couple of fun little books:

  

A little emergent reader for whole class work:

And some alphabet writing practice:

Veteran's Day

Five year old's may not understand what Veteran's Day is all about, but they do understand that their mom's and dad's leave them for extended periods of time.  Teaching the children of the men and women of the Air Force is an honor. The children sacrifice so much so their parent's can protect our freedom.

Our principal presented each of the classroom's with this book at our Monday Morning Assembly.

We also did some of the activities in Deanna Jump's Veteran's Day packet  - be sure to pick this up before Thursday.  You will love it!

We started to learn Deanna's original song that is in her packet, called American Soldier.  Hearing the children sing this song brings tears to my eyes.  They are pretty amazing kids.  There is also a book that goes with the song.  We read/sang the book and focused on the word "you."

We also made our "airmen."  The children were so excited to make these, because this is how they see their mom's and dad's every day!  I am excited for parent's to see them!  We will finish up the project with a short writing activity tomorrow.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the men and women that protect our freedom every day.    The flags from the entrance of our base say it all.  We remember.