Mo Willem's Pigeon

Our class just completed a week-long author study of Mo Willems, the creative mind behind the fun Pigeon stories and other books/series. We compared four different Pigeon stories, learned how to draw our very own Pigeon, and then write an opinion piece on our favorite story from the week!

 

 

Our stories this week:

 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus; The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog;

The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, and The Duckling Gets a Cookie

 

 

 

Author studies are so much fun!

Thanksgiving Lunch

Today Kindergarten students had a special lunch to celebrate Thanksgiving! Families were invited to attend. Thank you to the parents that were able to make lunch more enjoyable for your child. Have a great Thanksgiving (Fall) Break!

 

 

 

I had to get one pic with one of my own kiddos - I am so thankful for my two boys!!

Crazy Hat Day



One of our Red Ribbon Week themes was "Hats Off to Being Drug-Free!" Some of my students chose to participate. Yes, that's me with a turkey hat on my head!

 



Veterans Day

We invited some veterans to come to our classroom today and share about their experiences in our country's military. We welcomed Mr. Dunkle (Third Grade teacher) and Mrs. Ray (Principal). They showed us pictures of them and some of the machines they used and locations they went to during their time of service. Thank you to our veterans for your service to our country!

 

 

 

Collaborative Sight Word Search

We worked in collaborative teams to search for sight words in our class big books. We had two searchers, one pointer, one hand-raiser/communicator, and one cube/score keeper (every team member helped search for words, but the two searchers had all of their focus on the words).

 

When a sight word (specific ones were listed on the board) was located by a searcher, the pointer would keep a finger on it while the communicator raised a hand to get my attention. Then, once I confirmed the find, the Score Keeper would collect one linking cube from me and add it to the team's tower (5 cubes was the total). Great teamwork, kiddos!

 

 

 

October is Fire Safety Month

A visitor came to our school today! He showed us all about fire and bad weather safety. We went to the portable Fire House and he demonstrated what a tornado and fire look, sound, and feel like. It was a great learning experience! Do you have your fire escape and family plan in place?

 

 

 

 

October Crafts

Our class made scarecrow glyphs this week! After reading some really great books with scarecrows as the main character, we decided to make our own. What better way to do it than by making ours to represent important characteristics about ourselves!

 

 

 

We also decorated our door as one GIANT pumpkin. After adding some 3D vines, we attached any pumpkins that came back from our Family Project Pumpkin to our class patch!