November 19, 2017

November was filled with many activities related to Native Americans, the Pilgrims and our first Thanksgiving.  The students discovered the different land forms that were homes to the Native Americans and how they used the land to survive.  They studied about the homes and survival skills of  the Ojibway, the Iroquois, the Cherokee, the Lakota, the Hopi and the Haida tribes.  We drew different  types of homes (tepee, long house and pueblo) , made pottery from play dough, wrote summaries of each tribe and played a few Native American games.  We learned a rain dance and are waiting on the rain to come!!!
All of the children have made exciting progress with their reading skills and look forward to their time for independent reading each day.
We are studying odd and even numbers, adding 2 to a number, ordinal numbers, symmetry, telling time, counting money, capacity of containers, estimation, and using standard and nonstandard measurement.  The children are copying and creating beautiful patterns using pattern blocks and they enjoy using calculators to solve and check higher level math problems.
There is never a dull moment in our classroom...first grade is fantastic.

We will be boarding the Polar Express and going around the world to learn about Christmas in other countries during December.