Our Week in Review! Week of November 15, 2021

 

Wow!!  We had a fun and busy week filled with lots of great learning!!  

Highlights of Our Learning from the Week of November 15, 2021

• Did many activities with the digraphs sh, ch, th, ph, wh, and ck

• Illustrated and published a Small Moment story and had an author’s share

• Learned about the dairy process

• Learned about the many different dairy products

• Made butter!  And then sampled it

• Earned a school-wide celebration of Movie Day!

• Read some books about kindness and did some activities centered around how to be kind and show kindness

• Continued learning about and working on math problems that have multiple solutions including the new strategy of using a T-Chart 

• Read two books about gratitude and being thankful; had a “gratitude circle” and shared one thing that we are grateful for; started a Gratitude Journal

• Met one of RES’s therapy dogs, Winnie! 

Lots of practice with digraphs!

Learning about the importance of kindness and how one small act of kindness can spread and have big ripple effects on others!

We sent kindness notes to our family members!

We had an Authors' Share!  Complete with a celebratory "Cheers to each other for a job well done" sip of apple juice!

We made butter!!!!  And of course, sampled it!  It was a hit!

We had to do a LOT of shaking!!

                               Watch us in action!!

 We learned how to draw a turkey and a cow!

We had a visit with Winnie the therapy dog!!

We ended our week by thinking about gratitude and the importance of taking time to notice what we are thankful for.  

We even had a gratitude circle!

 Our school-wide celebration: Movie and Popcorn Day!!