Stone Soup

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will read different versions of the book Stone Soup and contrast and compare the characters, setting, and more! On Tuesday we will make our own stone soup and enjoy it together as a class family. We will eat at 12:00 on this day in our classroom. Everyone is welcome to come but unfortunately we will only have enough food for our little pilgrims and Indians, We will dress up as pilgrims and Indians and in addition to making our own soup we will sample vegetables from our class garden and make our own butter!

Guided Reading-We will review all reading strategies taught so far and practice in our small groups.

Guided Math-We will review all our addition strategies taught so far and practice in our small groups.

Writer's Workshop- We will share our published personal narratives with our 2nd grade buddies in Mrs. Barbor's class!

Reminders
*Thanksgiving break starts Wednesday, November 23rd. Happy Thanksgiving to all the monkey families! Gobble! Gobble!

Gingerbread Man

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-
We will read different versions of the Gingerbread Man and compare and contrast them. We will also learn the literary term refrain and look for it in our books this week. On Friday we will put on a gingerbread man play and decorate gingerbread houses. All are welcome!

Daily 5 Reading-We will read lots of versions of the Gingerbread Man. We will discuss, compare and contrast, predict, chart, discuss refrains, and analyze....

Writer's Workshop-We will continue to practice writing friendly letters and using their 5 parts of date, greeting, body, closing, and name. We will write to Santa and tell him all of the mischievous things our classroom elf on the shelf Chippy has been up to!

Guided Math-We will continue to practice our addition strategies and work on fluency with our facts.

Reminders
*Our gingerbread man play is this Friday in the cafeteria at 8:00. All are welcome!
*Next Friday, December 16th is our walking school bus polar express edition. We will meet at the park on Market and begin walking at 7:15. Your child may dress in their pajamas and bring their box train! We will sing Christmas carols on the way to school!
*Tuesday, December 20th is Grinch day! Wear green!
*Wednesday, December 21st is Candy Cane day! Wear red and white! It is also a half day. Students will be dismissed at 11:00.

Reindeer

This week in:

Shared Reading/Concepts-We will read non-fiction and fiction books on reindeer. We will learn the literary terms for such words as glossary, index, caption, etc...and practice using them. We will make reindeer shirts, hats, tails, sing songs, make reindeer food, make a reindeer snack, and much more!

Daily 5 Reading-We are having fun reindeer read aloud and learning and practicing using them by turning and talking or representing our ideas on white boards or paper.

Guided Math-We are practicing all of our addition strategies.

Writer's Workshop-We are learning how to write a friendly letter and writing Santa a letter.

Reminders
*Everyone is invited to join us next Friday at 8:00 in the cafeteria for our gingerbread man play and to build gingerbread houses with us! Please send in an apron with your child's name on it before next Friday. :)
*Everyone is invited to join us for our walking school bus polar express edition on Friday, December 16th at the park on Market. Come dressed in your jammies and with your box train! We will start walking at 7:15.

 Oh no! When we made reindeer food we accidentally left some on the playground and the reindeer came and oh no....pooped! The boys and girls were nice enough to help me clean it up with spoons and cups!