Author: feenstrat

Mrs. Schaffer Nov. 11th - 15th

Look What We’ve Been Learning….
Letters of the Week: Gg & Ff
Phonics: We learned about consonants Gg & Ff.
Stories: My Gg Book; Alphatales Gg; Mrs. Wish Washy’s Farm; Fall is Here; Alphatales Ff; Who is This?; The Little Red Hen and the Ear of Wheat; This Rig
Story Goals: to reread parts of a story to help comprehension; to read popcorn words; and to read simple words –decode words
Objectives: isolated the final sounds in words and to blend onset and rime in words; to match letter Ff to the sound /f/
Popcorn Words: here, this

Social Studies
In Social Studies, we have begun learning about the Thanksgiving story. Students traced their hands and wrote 5 things they are thankful for.
Watched a video on Pioneer life.

Writing
Handwriting Gg wkst.– practiced correct letter formation
Wrote and illustrated a noun ‘If I were a farm animal, I would be a….
Wrote a sentence using a noun and a verb and illustrated it.
Handwriting Ff worksheet - practiced correct letter formation

Math
Plane Shapes or 2-Dimensional Shapes
[hexagon, square, rectangle, square, and circle]
●Identified and extended patterns with plane shapes in different positions
●Combined like shapes to make larger shapes
●Identified and sorted plane shapes by using edible objects
●found plane shapes in the classroom and tallied them

Mark Your Calendar
Word Families: -it, in, ip, ig
Popcorn Words: where, do
Tues., Nov. 19th—attached Thanksgiving Feast note is due back if you wish to help/ donate an item for our upcoming Thanksgiving Feast
Friday, Nov. 22nd - Old Courthouse Museum speaker visiting. [9:30-10:00]
Nov. 27th—Dismissal @ 2:00 p.m.
Nov. 28th& 29th—No School