November in a Blog Post

We're moving through the school year at warp speed and honestly, that's how it felt to me with everything I had going on.  November wasn't quite as busy as October because we had a few days off, but we had a lot of fun things to do!

We had our 1st Terrific Kids Awards Assembly! Congrats to our first Terrific Kids!

We continued with our letters and made the robot alphabet hat from Simply Kinder! This is always my student's favorite!

We had Thanksgiving Rotations! Just like Pumpkin Rotations, students move to 6 classrooms and do a different activity in each room!  They made bracelets to learn about the First Thanksgiving, wrote their name using symbols, made bookmarks, put turkey numbers in order, made butter, and played Thanksgiving Vocabulary Bingo.

We made outfits and dressed up as Native Americans and Pilgrims!

We had a pie feast with Mrs. Mitchell's Class! The students tried pumpkin pie and apple pie and we graphed our favorite kind! Pumpkin won! I was super proud of everyone for taking their thank you bites :) We loved having our Native American friends over for a feast!

We used these resources in November: (You can download or wishlist for next year!)

     

 That's it for November! It was a super simple month, but lots of fun! Can you see how much these sweet students have grown already? December is coming soon!

Thanksgiving Pie Feast

Hello Monday! Hello 2 day week! Hello Pie Feast Day!  I posted about my cutie Native Americans last week, so today it was our turn to be the Pilgrims!  We invited over our sweet friends the Native Americans from Mrs.  Mitchell's class to have a Pie Feast with us today.

The Pie Feast is something we've done for years and our kids really enjoy it.  Each class sends home a note of things we need, one class asks for pumpkin pie and one class asks for apple pie.  Each class asks for juice boxes, plates, forks, napkins etc.  We cut the pies into 16 pieces each.  We talk to the students about the first Thanksgiving and then we taste the pies one at a time.  While students are finishing the pies and talking to their new friends, we call them up by tables to graph their favorite.  Then we analyze the graph.  Lots of fun!  Here are some pictures :)

 Can I tell you how much I love these silly pictures?? 

 Lily was the cutest Pilgrim EVER! She reminded me of Mini from the story The Littlest Pilgrim.  

An overwhelming number of kids chose Pumpkin as their favorite, which was pretty surprising for me.  We had a great time! 

Tomorrow we have our Thanksgiving Rotations with lots of fun activities.  Check back to see all the fun!  What does your class do for Thanksgiving?