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| We start with raw fiber. This is wool but we also got to feel and see flax and cotton. |
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| The students got to try their hand at carding the wool. This makes it nice and fluffy with the fiber all going in the same direction. |
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| We took the roving and used a drop spindle to form it into yarn. This was much harder than it looks and the students were surprised to learn that Colonial children often had this job to do in the home. |
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| The finished yarn can be woven or knitted to make something usable for wearing. I think the students got the idea that making clothing was a much longer process back then than it is today. |
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| We sent a nice thank you note to Mr. Mattar for giving us a pizza party, coloring books, and crayons. |
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| Our Fun Friday centers included an addition/subtraction game, "Pop". |
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| We also used ipads to improve our math and language arts skills. |
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| At the Listening Center we read Frog and Toad All Year from our author of the month, Arnold Lobel. |
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| We also decorated Christmas cards to send to a veterans' hospital. The students wrote words like, "Thank you for serving our country" and "You are a hero". |
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| Here is the photo that is going on our published book, Traditions. I am sending the book to the publishers this weekend- we are so excited! The students will be happy to know that there are no vocabulary or spelling words to study this week. Since it is a short week we will not have a reading test. We will fill our days with performing the plays, getting ready for Advent, making corn muffins and butter, learning more about Colonial Times and Native Americans, subtracting double digits, etc. I don't think we will miss the reading series! |
Other lessons:
Reading: We used baseball stories to learn about how to draw conclusions. We also practiced our fluency with our Thanksgiving plays. We are putting these plays on for other students. Parents will be invited to our big, end of the year plays.
Math: We are getting really good at adding columns of double digit numbers. Next week we will start subtracting with regrouping. We also worked on writing numbers in expanded form. Ex: 45= 40+5
SS: We received more emails from our fictional Pilgrim and Native American friends. We also viewed some clips about the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony. http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/thanksgiving-virtual-field-trip
Religion: We talked about sharing the gifts God has given us and Pentacost
Important Dates: 11/25- Native American Dance presentation with Mrs. Nash
11/26- Mass 9:40-10:30
