Our Thanksgiving Feast

This one of my most favorite days of the year when the Kindergarten Pilgrims and our First grade Native American friends come together for a yummy feast.   The boys and girls had a great time as they mixed and mingled, laughed and visited and ate and ate and ATE!  Of course, none of this would have happened without our wonderful parents who prepared such yummy food like deer meatballs,  roasted deer meat, deer jerky, deer sausage, beef sticks, cranberry and blueberry muffins, corn bread, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cupcakes, popcorn, trail mix, dried fruit and apple juice.  I know I am one of the luckiest teachers around with such wonderfully supportive parents.  Thank you for all you do to enhance your child's learning experiences!!

Yep - we ate just about everything!!!!!



November Art Projects

Welcome to our gobblin' good classroom.  The boys and girls love to work on our projects.  Most of our art projects take two days to complete.  They LOVE to show off their work!

The pumpkins were "picked" and the turkeys came in to let us know turkey isn't the ONLY thing to eat on Thanksgiving!

Our turkey wind socks

This is our November quilt.  Each student did a turkey hand print and with some clever cutting and gluing a beautiful fall maple leaf.

PALS

New and exciting things are taking place in Kindergarten! I just love it!  This past week we began PALS in our classroom. PALS is a program that makes sure children are getting a solid foundation in early reading skills.  The game-like PALS activities double the amount of practice students get with phonemic awareness and alphabetic knowledge.  Students are paired for activities that teach pronunciation, letter knowledge and phonemic awareness. Our regular PALS time is scheduled for 20 minutes two or three times a week.  Each month the boys and girls will receive a new PALS partner to work with.