Who are the Pilgrims?

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR.....

We took a trip to the book fair and found so many great books. Your child has a wish list with ideas of some books they would like to buy. This is a discussion for you and your child. If you send in money with them to buy something, we will find a good time during the day to bring them back to the fair so they can buy something. You are more than welcome to come with your child to the book fair if you would like. It will be going on until Monday the 20th.

Morning Activities...

 These guys love to color!

 Ethan 

Lexia is always a popular activity for these youngsters. This program is a fun interactive program supporting what is taught in the classroom. Students work independently at their own pace through individualized learning paths to develop fundamental reading skills in a structure, sequential manner. Teachers are notified when students require support or intervention and are provided with the resources for face-to-face instruction.

Morning Meeting.....a little history too!
Stop counting, we count the days we have been in school, but if Beth stops, you stop! Then you start again. Getting the brain use to counting from an number is tricky, but we are making great progress.
Our chart was missing words and the kids know that they can fill in the missing words. Today the missing word was "is" that will be something that we work on through the rest of the school year. Question today is "Do you know who the Pilgrims are?" We will be talking over the next few days up to break who the Pilgrims are and what they have to do with our up coming holiday.
Baden "villagers" "they go fishing."
Skyler "sold sailboats"
Luca "ride on boats and make new states."
Ethan "people"
 We sang a song, that gave a few more clues...

Zoe "they are eaters" "they celebrate Thanksgiving.'
River "they eat pumpkin pie"
Ethan "they have thanksgiving'
Else "say what they are thankful for "
Nora "they thank God."
Jack "they eat turkey"
Baden "they hunt for food for Thanksgiving."

Beth talked more about the Pilgrims. Pilgrims did go on a boat and hunt for their food for Thanksgiving and did thank God.
HINTS:
They were alive a long long time ago.
They came here on a ship called the Mayflower.
Baden "They ride on boats so they can hunt for food and live on other places."
They sailed to Cape Cod. They made friends with Squanto and lots of Indians.
Zoe "They sailed for food and water."
Ethan "Why did they make friends, Indians are mean."
Baden "They hunt and fish for, is there a group of people and they crash."
Jack "they came here to make friends."
Taber "does it mean there are some skulls are under this building?"

Then we read the story The First Thanksgiving by Linda Hayward.

The Pilgrims were the first to land here and who started our well know tradition, holiday, Thanksgiving.

Language Arts....

Letter Pp came to play today! We reviewed all of our letters we have learned so far and added the letter P. Then we reviewed many objects that started with the letter P.

Pan, paper plate, puppet, parrot, penguin, pen, pipe cleaner, puzzle piece, paper towel, pin, penny, paper clip, pits plane, pencil, popcycle stick, purse, paint.

Free Choice.....

        Working with letters in shaving cream!            Playing with legos and building great creations.

Playing house.

                                                      Making books and coloring pages.

Looking at books that some bought at the book fair.