Day 69

Wow! What a jam packed day of fun!

It wasn't really the end of the month, but this was the last day that we were together, so it was time for our Monthly Weather Graphing.

The students were introduced to a new holiday Math Work activity. This activity is a dice game especially made with pictures of Santa, Mrs. Claus, elves and the like. There are even red markers - very festive.

We also celebrated Nora's birthday today, since we will not be together on her birthday. (11.26) 

Nora wanted to hear the Beatles' Birthday. I did better than that! A video from the Let It Be album.

We read another Thanksgiving book - A Turkey for Thanksgiving.

To further celebrate the upcoming holiday, we watched Free Birds.

Our pizza lunch was a real success!

The students had some time to play in the classroom. Anthony, J'Shawn, and Megan created a 150 cup structure.

And then knocked it down.

I think knocking it down was more fun than building it :-)

So, Day 69 is over and the holiday season is at hand!

Have a safe, fun, and most of all, a very thankful and blessed Thanksgiving. 

We will be back together on Day 70, when we are going to have a guest in our classroom. Our guest will stay for 3 weeks! 

Who will be naughty? 

Who will be nice?

Here is a hint.....

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NOTES:

Folders tend to "go missing" over the holidays :-) So, I did not return folders this afternoon. I will keep them safe and sound for the holiday week.

If you want to start Week #14 homework during the holiday week, the new homework has been posted on the Homework page.

There will be no elementary school next week, however child care will be available Monday, November 24th through Wednesday, November 26th. Camelot School will be closed on Thursday and Friday.

We will be sending out 30 cards and I would really appreciate some help with the postage.

Day 68

First of all, Liliana has been away from us for too long!

We began our day reviewing our Word Wall sentences.

Then, we watched a class made video of Twas the Night before Thanksgiving, the book that we read yesterday.

During our read-aloud, we read Squanto's Journey. 

In 1620, an English ship called the Mayflower landed on the shores inhabited by the Pokanoket people, and it was Squanto who welcomed the newcomers and taught them how to survive in the rugged land they called Plymouth.

We had our rotations and during that time, Megan read,...

...Izabella read,...

Anthony completed skip counting.

Nathan started to read and...

Megan earned her addition certificate in addition!

After recess, we reviewed this week's Word Wall Words, were introduced to a new poem for winter,...

...and read A Silly Turkey Party.

By the end of the day, it was set. 9 students earned a pizza lunch for tomorrow...

Congratulations!

Anthony

Isaiah

Izabella

Megan

Nathan

Nora

Sammy

Taniya

Tyler

Day 69 is going to be mighty fine! 

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NOTES:

You will be able to pick up your child's Report Card on today or Friday (November 20-21, 2014). 

Folders tend to "go missing" over the holidays :-) So, I will not be returning folders on Friday, November 21st. I will keep them safe and sound for the holiday week.

There will be no elementary school next week, however child care will be available Monday, November 24th through Wednesday, November 26th. Camelot School will be closed on Thursday and Friday.

As I mentioned yesterday, we will be sending out 30 cards and I would really appreciate some help with the postage.

Day 67

We had a following directions activity this morning and 2 rotations.

We read another Thanksgiving book called Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving.

"...O'ver rivers, through woods,
With winding and weaves,
Their school bus sailed on
Through the new-fallen leaves.

When out on the road
There arose such a clatter,
They threw down their windows
To see what was the matter...."

This afternoon, we played a pre-Christmas matching game.

Thursday is Day 68!

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NOTES:

You will be able to pick up your child's Report Card tomorrow and Friday (November 20-21, 2014). 

Folders tend to "go missing" over the holidays :-) So, I will not be returning folders on Friday, November 21st. I will keep them safe and sound for the holiday week.

Your student is attempting to earn a pizza lunch on Friday. On Thursday afternoon,  you will get a notice if your student has earned it. There are still 8 students eligible for the reward!

There will be no elementary school next week, however child care will be available Monday, November 24th through Wednesday, November 26th. Camelot School will be closed on Thursday and Friday.

As I mentioned yesterday, we will be sending out 30 cards and I would really appreciate some help with the postage.

Day 66

Calendar, weather, place value, oh my! And not to mention a challenge!

Let's face it, whenever the students are anticipating time off from school for a holiday, they are excited and often they allow themselves to "slip" when it comes to behaviour. To help in that area, I let the students know that if they were on blue or purple through Tuesday through Thursday they would earn a pizza lunch on Friday.

They were excited and immediately made a pact to work together and help each other reach that goal.

After their impromptu cheering session, we read The Great Turkey Race.

We had 3 great rotations.

Anthony and Megan worked, on skip counting and regrouping, at the conference table. 

Izabella read to herself.

Taniya built words with magnetic letters and and then worked on beginning and ending sounds at the conference table.

Nora worked on Word Wall Words.

After recess, we created Word Wall Word sentences.

Day 67 is up next and there are only 3 mores days until the Thanksgiving Break!

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NOTES:

You will be able to pick up your child's Report Card on Thursday or Friday (November 20-21, 2014). 

Folders tend to "go missing" over the holidays :-) So, I will not be returning folders on Friday, November 21st. I will keep them safe and sound for the holiday week.

Your student is attempting to earn a pizza lunch on Friday. On Thursday afternoon,  you will get a notice if your student has earned it. 

There will be no elementary school next week, however child care will be available Monday, November 24th through Wednesday, November 26th. Camelot School will be closed on Thursday and Friday.

As I mentioned yesterday, we will be sending out 30 cards and I would really appreciate some help with the postage.

Day 65

It's Monday, so that means we begin our day with 100 numbers!

Today, we made a perky turkey.

We then had our calendar time and a read aloud entitled The Plump and Perky Turkey.

We had 3 rotations. During one of the rotations, Isaiah stated to read!!!

Every other year, I do a card exchange so our students can see what other classes do and more importantly look on a map for the schools location as the cards arrive. Last week, I received confirmation about our 2014-2015 holiday card exchange. We will be sending out 30 cards.

Here is the adorable picture and the card from the 2012-2014 school year.

After lunch, we continued reading The Creature Department.

And after recess, the students made words. We worked on the -ine and the -ice word families.

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NOTES:

You will be able to pick up your child's Report Card on Thursday or Friday (November 20-21, 2014). 

Folders tend to "go missing" over the holidays :-) So, I will not be returning folders on Friday, November 21st. I will keep them safe and sound for the holiday week.

There will be no elementary school next week, however child care will be available Monday, November 24th through Wednesday, November 26th. Camelot School will be closed on Thursday and Friday.

As I mentioned above, we will be sending out 30 cards and I would really appreciate some help with the postage.