There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

 

We had to squeeze in a bit of Thanksgiving fun before going off track for the rest of November!  We worked with the book, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie."

Here is an online version of the book if your child would like to hear it again:

On Monday we talked about how stories have an order, or sequence, and worked together to remember the order in which the old lady swallowed things.

After doing it as a class, we practiced doing it on our own!

On Tuesday we met the Syllable Monster.  He helped us learn how to clap and count syllables in words.

We counted the syllables in the items from the Old Lady book and sorted them in our pocket chart.  We also practiced it on our own at our desks and it was great to see everyone really getting the hang of clapping out syllables!  It is a very useful reading and writing skill.

At center time, the kids enjoyed counting syllables in the names of people in our class.  We had friends with 1, 2, 3, and even 4 syllables!

In math this week we worked on showing pictures of addition problems.  We made pumpkins with some orange play-dough, (thanks moms!), and the kids had a great time putting their pumpkins in the pumpkin patch!

We practiced our counting and number writing skills with a fun "count around the room" game.  There were Thanksgiving pictures hiding around the room for the kids to find, count, and record.

The kids enjoyed listening to a Thanksgiving story during center time.

And they worked on a painting project that will be coming home at the end of the year in their portfolios.

Every week, we play the flashlight game with our word wall.  I say a word on the word wall and they find it as fast as they can with the flashlight.  It would be a fun game to do at home to practice your words!

We also had a great time with another "Pete the Cat" book!  The kids were singing along and rolling with laughter.  This one is definitely worth checking out at the library.

Here is an online reading of the book if your child would like to hear it again:

After reading the story, we all got a shirt and some buttons and practiced showing the actions of the story on our shirts.

The kids were having a wonderful time and were practicing their subtraction skills all at the same time.

Then we went back to our seats and worked on drawing a picture of the math and recording number sentences.  Of course we had to sing the little song with each problem.  :)

Friday we had a very special assembly in honor of Veteran's Day.  Burke's dad is in the military and so Burke got to go up to the front with his dad and brothers! 

Madisen was our star student and brought her soccer ball to show the class!

And we celebrated Gracie and John's birthdays since they will both be turning 6 while we are off track. 

Enjoy your off-track time and Thanksgiving holiday everyone!  I will post again when we come back on track!