Thursday 10 October 2013

Week 6: What Does "Thankful" Mean?

Due to Mr. McCullough's illness at the start of the week and photo day on Wednesday, plans had to be slightly adjusted to accommodate for supply teachers, hence the shortened blog entry this week.

Books We Read
All of Me: A Book of Thanks

Song of the Week
The Turkey Dance
(Sung to "Turkey in the Straw)
Well you turkey to the left, then you turkey to the right.
And you take your turkey foot and you scratch with all your might.
Next you take your turkey head and you move it wobble wobble
And you spin around in place and you say "Gobble Gobble".

Other Thing We Did
We learned that the letter C sometimes sounds just like the letter K, like at the start of cat, cake and cartoon.

We added the letter P to our printing list, and it was the first letter that we've both used in printing and in our Jolly Jingles!

Sight words were introduced this week, as Mr. McCullough started playing "Sight Word Snap-Up" on our message!  While Mr. McCullough read the message a second time, we had to play close attention and say "ZIP!" whenever he said a sight word.  Somebody then got a turn to circle that sight word!

Picture Day on Wednesday!  We all looked pretty fabulous!

The class talked about what we were thankful for, and how being thankful is different than just liking something.  We also acted out the story of "The Old Lady and the Vinegar Bottle", about an old lady who never said thank you and took all the gifts given to her by a magical fish for granted!

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