Wonderful Wednesday

We started our day today by reviewing our red words and practicing words in the ___ax and ___ix families.  There aren't very many words in these families so the first graders are loving how quickly SWR has been going this week!  Since we had extra time, we read a story about a turkey who was trying to avoid his fate at Thanksgiving time.  He got his best, final solution while he was in the family garden... you should ask your student about the solution. They thought it was *so* funny!  (And clever!)  

We have been discussing thankfulness all week so we took time today to make Thankful Turkeys.  Here they are in progress...

and finished!

We have quite the flock of Thankful Turkeys in our room which I am so glad about!

Ryan P. and Connor had lunch in the classroom to celebrate their awesome behavior!  We had a great time visiting about our upcoming Thanksgiving plans.

 Ryan B. and Colin enjoyed sharing a new book from the book fair.

We learned a new poem today that can be sung to the tune of "Are You Sleeping".  The students loved saying the poem and singing it.  They've asked that I make copies of all of our poems so they can bring them home- be looking for those towards the end of the week!  

We finished our day by coloring in a map of the Porters Point area and coming up with our own words for N, E, S, W instead of Never Eat Shredded/Soggy Wheat.

Finally, at the end of the day... our turkeys took flight!

Report cards will be sent home on Friday.  Please check your child's folder for it!