Gobble...Gobble...Gobble & A Happy Thanksgiving to you!

What a fun week...it seemed short combing Thanksgiving and Turkeys! But we got it done! We also worked on the letter Tt and reviewed 0-5 by playing lots of games!

Thursday:

After we read my favorite Thanksgiving story...we made Fat Turkeys of our own!

Such an artist!

Our sweet turkeys!
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/85357355411439275/

Dramatic Play!

We are thankful for so much! Hope you like your sweet place mats!
They were all thankful for mommies and daddies! A few other things they were thankful were: God, Jesus, Mario Kart 8, the world! I am thankful for them!

Our turkey treat! Thanks to a special mama who sent this in!

Shapes, colors, and turkeys! This was a great way to identify their shapes and colors...along with counting!

Helping Tommy Turkey get his feathers! They had to count out 5 feathers and add them to their turkeys! A fun way for me to informally assess their counting skills! They rocked it!

We worked on building a staircase with unifix cubes. This helped them identify with the matching a quantity to the coordinating number!

Done to absolute perfection...So proud!!!

Now...let's see how long we can make it!! ha!

Awesome teamwork friends!! Love these sweet kiddos!

Friday...

On Friday we talked more about the meaning of Thanksgiving and how it all started! The Pilgrims and the Native Indians! We then made our very own Mayflower.

They painted water and added 3 sails...I once again had them count out 3 sails...they are doing awesome with 1:1 correspondence!

http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2011/11/pinterest-and-poem.html

Our sweet turkey snack! 

We were letter detectives and located all the capitol and lowercase Tt's in this poem. They amaze me with their smartness!!! 

So you thought you would get a week with out fine motor skills...Sorry! Tearing for T! They took paper and had to tear little pieces off to cover their T. The smaller pieces they tear the harder it is on their sweet hands. I encouraged small pieces to work on strengthening them!

Ordering...Biggest to smallest!

Super work!

Making a puzzle picture by ordering numbers 1-10! Proving how smart they are!

Playing Hi-Ho-Cherrio! What a fun way to work on counting! They even had to subtract!

So engaged!

Those small cherries are hard to handle!

Coloring Turkeys to make magnets for you! These kiddos are so thankful for their families!

Have a wonderful, safe, and thankful Thanksgiving! Enjoy your week off!

Roar! We LOVE dinosaurs!

What a super fun week learning all about dinosaurs! We read many non-fiction books and even made fossils! We also played Candyland to help us with 1:1 correspondence when counting and our colors! Learning can be such fun!

Thursday:

Sizing up his dinosaurs and putting them in order from smallest to biggest! So smart!

grr! This kiddo loves the roar of the dinos!

Let's make fossils. The first attempt didn't go over so well we made it with coffee, coffee, grinds, and flour. For some reason they didn't turn out...so we tried another recipe. We compared them too...The coffee one turned out to be more runny and hard to make the prints of the dinosaurs...the second one was thicker and much easier to hold molds. I will give you both links and you can try them both at home! Let me know how yours turn out!!!

It was fun to use our sense of smell to determine this was coffee...many told me about their parents drinking coffee! 

adding some prints...

1. coffee ground recipe: http://www.icanteachmychild.com/dinosaur-fossils/
2. Flour and salt recipe: http://www.kiwicrate.com/projects/Salt-Dough-Dinosaur-Fossils/543

dotting our dinosaurs!

We worked on our names and the shape of a triangle. I had the kiddos names on the triangles and they had to put them in the correct order. Such a fun activity to do at home. Our goal is that the kiddos will be able to write their first name by the end of the year!! We will be focusing on this a great deal after Christmas break!

Super job sweet buddy!

Nice work lil Miss Smarty!

Playing dinosaurs!

Friday:

Our craft for Friday was making a stegosaurus using our hand prints! 

Check out these cool stamp pads I was able to purchase with the trike-a-thon money! They make stamping hands quick, easy, and less messy! Thanks!

That is the cutest little stegosaurus I have ever laid eyes on!

With so much built up energy with this nasty weather we needed to find a way to get it out! So after we did mind-in-motion we had some relays!

We are tornadoes here!

hopping rabbits here!

helicopters here! This made many very dizzy! ha!!

Four our independent station I had the kiddos attempt to punch out dots for their Dd. This proved to be very tiring for their sweet hands. Such a great fine motor skill. After each of the kiddos punched a few dots...I had extra dots at the tables so they could sprinkle them on their Dd's

Hard at work!

Super work!

Time for non-standard units of measurement! We are measuring dinosaur bones with unifix cubes!

After we measured them out we counted how long each bone was. Great for practicing 1-1! Many kiddos still have a tendency to count faster than their fingers can move...You can work with them at home: count out napkins for dinner, silverware, cups, or even count their food on their plate!

We then worked on tracing the number!

Candyland time!

We used this game...to practice counting and colors. A fun and interactive way to learn!

Blocks and dinosaur caves! So much fun!! Such great imaginations!!