Giving Thanks!

This week our theme was Giving Thanks! We learned about the first thanksgiving, shared what we are thankful for, made turkey crafts, gobbled in the turkey trot parade, and ate our own thanskgiving dinner! On Friday we had a Doodlebugs! pajama party. We watched Toy Story 3 and ate popcorn in our pajamas.
Our poem of the week was:

Five little turkeys standing by a door.
One waddled off and then there were four.
Four little turkeys under a tree.
One waddled off and then there were three.
Three little turkeys with nothing to do.
One waddled off and then there were two.
Two little turkeys in the noonday sun.
One waddled off an then there was one.
One little turkey better run away,
Or he'll get eaten on Thanksgiving Day!

Painting turkeys!

Our own thanksgiving dinner in the kitchen center

Gobble! Gobble! Ready for the turkey trot parade!

We are thankful for so many things!

Making a turkey on our felt board

Writing about what we are thankful for in our journals

Making a handprint turkey

We see turkeys everywhere!

Making silly faces!

Waiting for our Thanksgiving dinner

Yummy! We love Thanksgiving!

A proud big brother during our thanksgiving feast

Pajama day! Drawing a picture of what you would find under our beds

Wow! The first snowfall of the season! That means Santa comes soon!

Transportation!

This week the students learned about transportation! We had many fun transportation centers, including a transportation street mat, a car wash, vehicle felt board, and painting vehicles at the easel. Students even built an airport with blocks and packed their bags! They used their imagination to go to fun places. Some of their destinations included "Aruba, Disney World, Australia to see the koala bears, Brazil, and faraway places." We painted vehicles, read stories about things that go, and created a school bus of the future! Our school bus flies in the sky and uses popcorn as fuel.
Our poem of the week was:

Can you see the Traffic light?
Traffic Light, Traffic Light!
Can you see the Traffic light?
Traffic Light, Traffic Light!
That tells you what to do.
Green means go.
Go, go, go!
Yellow means slow.
Slow, slow, slow!
And red means stop.
Stop, stop, stop!

**Thank you for all your canned food donations and recipes! Look for our class recipe book soon.

Painting school buses and gluing the wheels on!

Car wash!

Transportation mat

"We packed our bags for the beach!

The dinosaur is taking us for a ride!

Hot air balloons

Our transportation felt board

Vehicle stamps

Transportation mat

Packing suitcases and heading to "Aruba"

Reading stories to each other

"I found a train book!"

Reading "Down by the Station" to Thomas

Painting our vehicle of the future

Reading our poem of the week

Our finished school bus of the future!

Displayed in the front of the center

Miss Kristin helps paint boats

Our letter of the week was G and G is for glue and glitter!

Where does the vehicle belong?

Writing time!

Painting at the easel

Healthy Nutrition!

The theme of the week was "Healthy Nutrition!" We learned all about the five food groups on the food pyramids. We taste tested yummy healthy treats, made food collages, a cornucopia, graphs of our favorite foods, and even dipped half a potatoe into brown paint to make the body for a colorful turkey. Our poem of the week was a dance too!

For grains, do the monkey.
Move your arms up and down!

For veggies do the twist.
Twist yourself around!

For fruit, do the slide.
Slide your feet!

For dairy, do the cha cha.
Feel the cha cha beat!

For meat, fish, and beans do the pogo.
Bounce your body!

Thank you for bringing in canned foods for the food drive! Please do not forget to bring in your favorite recipe printed on the computer for our class recipe book.

We popped popcorn in the popcorn machine!

Making a pasta collage

Yummy veggies

Loving our healthy snacks

A colorful turkey!

Graph of our favorite fruits

Matching the pictures of food to the right food group on the pyramid

Using sponges dipped in paint to fill the cornucopia with fruits and vegetables!

She made a plate of her favorite foods!

Having a healthy picnic in the kitchen

Our favorite foods

Graphs of our favorite dairy foods, meats/fish/beans, and fruits

Graphs of our favorite veggies and grains

Our beautiful artwork

Don't forget to bundle up!

Mr. Sun came out to play on Friday! What a beautiful day for playing outside!

We write in our journals every week. This week we wrote about our favorite healthy foods.