Monday, November 25

   
Monday, November 25

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: men, set, fed, met
 Segment: get, ten, pet, bed
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes:  b, g, u, c, d, o, n, i, f, p, t, s, m, a
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: b, g, u, c, d, o, n, i, f, p, t, s, m, a
Blending Drill
sub to nub to tub to tug to tag to bag to big to bug to bus to but to cut to cub to
cob to cab to dab to dub 
 New Concept

Letter e (short vowel sound)

 Handwriting: Lowercase j

(Short Line Down Letters: r, n, m, i, j, p)
 Writer's Workshop: Labeling
Today, we begin a new unit on labeling. To launch the lesson, the mentor text My Map Book by Sara Fenelli will trigger ideas of how labeling gives us information. A silly way to engage the kiddos is to label me! After stretching out words together on sticky notes, the kids will place them on me! 
I will send an introduction letter home in their folder today explaining the unit.

Literacy Jobs

KinderMath: Order Height
Through a few activities, the children will work on placing items in order from shortest to tallest and tallest to shortest. 
Social Studies: The First Thanksgiving
(We did not get to this on Friday.)

What two groups of people had a fall harvest feast in 1621 at the Plymouth colony?
The Pilgrims and Wampanoag.

Where did the feast take place?

Plymouth Colony.
How long did their harvest feast last?

Three days.

What kinds of food did they eat at the harvest feast?

Corn, cranberries, pumpkin, venison, fish.

Did the Pilgrims and Wampanoag call their feast “Thanksgiving”?
No. People began to call their harvest feast the “First Thanksgiving” hundreds of years later. 

Who helped make Thanksgiving a holiday?

Sarah Hale. She wrote articles and letters to people in the government to ask them to create a Thanksgiving holiday.

Do all people think that Thanksgiving is a happy and joyful holiday?

No. Some people, especially many Native or Indigenous people think of Thanksgiving as a day of sadness.
How can we be respectful of the Native American culture on Thanksgiving?
Learn about their history, not use Native American culture as costumes. 

How can you celebrate Thanksgiving in a respectful way?
Talk about what you are thankful for and learn about the history of Thanksgiving.

Music class today

~My happy and proud illustrators!