Our First Thanksgiving Feast

Clockwise from top:

turkey, nuts, Indian pudding, grapes, succotash, stewed pumpkin

(We also sampled grits and dried cranberries.)

Wow! What a wonderful Thanksgiving feast! All of the children got to sample the types of food that were at the first Thanksgiving. Most of them found at least one thing that they liked. We sampled grapes, nuts, turkey, grits, succotash, stewed pumpkin and Indian pudding. Most of the family members were surprised that the Indian pudding did not have any pumpkin in it! Ask your child about their favorite food from our meal.

On Monday we will get back into the routine and start a review of all the letter sounds before the Christmas holiday. We will also be talking all about the winter holidays, in addition to learning how to observe and predict in science and social studies. Look for our special holiday homework coming home with your child on Thursday and report cards on Wednesday.

Thank you for making our first Thanksgiving a success! Hopefully you and your child enjoyed our afternoon.

It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is almost here! The children have grown so much in our first trimester. We will be learning our last two letter sounds /y/ and /z/ next week and will be reviewing all of our sounds in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

Next week we will be preparing for our Thanksgiving feast. We hope you can join us on Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. to sample food that was at the first Thanksgiving!

There was no homework sent home yesterday. Look for a special holiday project coming home on December 3rd !

Kaley was our terrific kid this week. Here is what we were up to in kindergarten:

We went on the baseball field in P.E. We ran the bases. We went on the big playground because we did good work. We used hula hoops with Coach and had a free day. Our families came to eat lunch with us yesterday for Thanksgiving dinner. We went to the library. We sorted the food for the Thanksgiving basket. The food is for people who need it. We know all of our letters. We worked together to put the letters together. (Ms. Titus’s note: The class worked to put the alphabet blocks in ABC order) This week was fantastic!

What a busy week. We were hard at work this week, with a field trip on Thursday, and Veteran’s Day holiday in the middle of the week. We managed to get all of our activities in though. Next week we will start our Thanksgiving unit. If you joined us on the field trip, thank you for coming, and we hope you had a great time with us!

Sage was our terrific kid this week. Here is what she had to say about our busy week:

We went on a field trip. We got to see Bodyology. We learned about our bones. We saw what our brain does. We learned about our heart. We went on a nature walk. We saw an alligator. We saw signs that took us to the tower. We went on a bridge. We went on a playground. We had a picnic.

Sage enjoying her soup.
We got to eat stone soup. It has stones, carrots, water, and other vegetables. I liked it. We had 8 paws. We have 10 now. We will get to go on the big playground (Ms. Titus’s note: when other classes catch the students being good, or they have good lunchroom behavior, we receive a paw, each time we get to 10, we get extra recess). Our reading buddies will come. This week was fantastic!

What another great week in kindergarten. Most of the children are really starting to blossom into great readers and writers!

Reminders for next week:
-No school on Wednesday in honor of Veteran’s Day.
-Thursday is our field trip to Bodyology. Parents will be driving; we will not be taking the bus. If you are driving, look for more details early next week!
-We are continuing our food drive through November 20. If you have any items to donate, please bring them in!

This week we talked about the sounds /g/ and /w/ as well as the words jump and and. Next week we will be introducing the /x/ and /v/ sounds and the words to and come. Please practice these words and sounds at home with your child! In social studies and science we finished our community unit. Our community mural is finished and will be up until Thanksgiving. Our next unit will be on food, and the past vs. present. We will complete this unit with a First Thanksgiving feast, and get a chance to try foods that were likely at the first Thanksgiving!

Our terrific kid this week was Ben.

Ben working hard

He got help writing the blog from our terrific kids from the last two weeks Caroline and Shane, since we were not in school on their Fridays. Here is what they had to say about our week.

We stayed on green at lunch. We got a panther paw because we stayed on green. We saw a snake on the way back from the playground. We did fun stuff. We made cars for our mural. We went to the library. We used baseball bats and hula hoops at P.E. Kayla’s mom came to visit. She told us about being a nurse. She gave us masks and casts. It was Shane’s birthday. He is first to turn 6. This week was fantastic!


Caroline and Shane with friends in the library