1. Since this was a short week, there were no sets of spellings words. When we arrived at school, students were partner reading A Turkey for Thanksgiving. After each page, the person who was reading would ask the other person one question about what they just read. This was to make sure that students were following along with the story and understanding it. When they were finished reading, they went back to their desk and wrote five questions in thier notebooks about the story. Once everyone had done that, they passed their notebook to their neighbor who wrote down the answer to the questions.
2. They were making turkeys for Thanksgiving on Monday. In order to do this, each student had to trace their hand 10 different times to make the feathers of the turkey. They also had to trace each foot to make the “gobblers” of the turkey. After tracing, they wrote on 8 hands they wrote the characters in the story A Turkey for Thanksgiving and on the other 2 they wrote sentences about the story. I also assisted with the math lesson on Monday. Students were learning how to add with regrouping. They used base ten blocks to make three digit numbers and add them together by starting with the smallest numbers and adding to the biggest.
3. For the second time sinces we’ve been at the school, there was a fire drill. Students did not switch classes like normal today because Mrs. Vance was out for the day. Because students took so long to make their turkeys, there wasn’t much time for any other language arts or math during that time, but they were very content to finish what they had started.
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