Turkey Day :)

Today was our traditional Thanksgiving feast.  Above is the 'nice' picture of all the cute Pilgrims and Indians, below is a picture of a bunch or turkeys.

 We love our 4th Grade buddies!

 

  

  

 The riveting performance of "I'm Glad I'm Not a Turkey"

 

balloons, bears

 Lots of balloon pictures.  We tried to bounce and balance while sitting and standing, with our hands, fingers, elbows, feet...

 Then we balanced a balloon between our stomachs, backs, and heads

 one last giggle-inducing game: trying to keep the balloon in the circle by kicking/hitting it while lying down

 Today was bear day, but the camera didn't come out until late afternoon.  Our bears did almost everything with us, even went to music class and some to recess.  And we did things with them, like hibernating in dens (under tables).  Here I believe some bears are learning about the life cycle of frogs.

 We had to read some cards to put them in order so we could make bear paw prints.

 Yummy!

 Here is the whole class: bears and humans.  1 picture shows all the faces, the other is more clear.  I look forward to having full use of two hands again.  Soon, I hope!

 One student even dressed like a black bear.

 The bears all stayed overnight for a sleepover.  They're not hibernating though - they're playing!  Tomorrow morning your children get to find their bears and figure out what they were doing...

Leaf Day!

 It started with a leaf hunt

Then  we sorted the leaves we found

 and graphed them by color and then by shape.

 We also played a leaf number game.

Science time: making observations and recording them.

One student had leaves shaped like hearts.

 These leaves are from a grandma in Michigan several years ago.

 After reading some leaf stories we wrote our own leaf story.  Some were silly and some were more realistic.  The authors stood to read.  Notice the other students practicing good listening skills by looking at the speaker.
 
We played another leaf game: climbing the 'tree trunk' to drop leaves on the target.

  

HAPPY FALL!

We ended with our Leaves Are Falling poem and throwing our construction paper leaves into the air (the only way to have fall-colored leaves fall during Fall in Phoenix).

Funky Friday

 Today was Funky Friday! 

 In our morning message we found lots of letter r's and tried to figure out all the sounds it made.

Math was delicious this morning! After learning about ordinal numbers we ended our color theme with a Brown Bear activity: coloring, sorting, counting,

graphing

 recording our graphs and FINALLY getting to eat the m&m.

 Thanks to Shannon over at Kindergarten Hoppenings for the sorting mat and graphing page!

 At the end of the day our buddies came over and we drew rockets, painted fire, and then painted our rockets and outlined them with black.  Everyone was working for an hour, but no one complained!  Some of the rockets look really cool.  Next week they will get cut out and glued to the fiery backgrounds.

Oh, and remember those uniform shirts that have been in the closet for the last couple weeks?  Pull them out because next week will be a 'normal' week, whatever that means.  :)