Language Arts

We have been writing some classroom books in which each child creates a page that is later compiled into a book. The first one we did was called I Like Pizza, Yum! Yum! Yum! We will use this book to practice syllables in words. Our next project is A Book of Thanksgiving. Each child will write a page about something they appreciate. We have traced leaves and will make a tree of things we are grateful for. We have read some Native American stories about appreciating the earth and each other, such as Chief Jake Swamp's Thanksgiving Address. As we get closer to Thanksgiving we will read stories that focus on the feast traditionally celebrated.

We have also been working with the beginning sounds in words and rhyming words. We play lotto games, matching games, board games and songs, like Down By the Bay. We are building sentences using word cards with words the children are learning to read.

We have been cooking as well. We made cookies when the children chose a Halloween party as their reward for earning a jar full of cubes with their good behavior. Thank you to all the parents who sent in treats! We cooked pumpkin seeds after we carved a pumpkin. Thanks to the 5/6th grade classes we had some apples. We made applesauce and when we had some left over we made applesauce cake. We've been eating well!