Feast Day

Our word of the day today was "some". It was a homonym for the math word "sum". It was a rule breaker, because the "o" said the sound of "short u". The -um family was very popular. We made a long list of words. In math today, we practiced growing patterns. We made three Indian growing patterns on our vests to wear to the feast. We used symbols, just the Indians. Check them at home tonight. See if you can tell the name of each pattern. After lunch and recess, we read the story, The First Thanksgiving. Mrs. Myers wrote a list of Thanksgiving words on the easel. We had to tell her which two words did not belong. We weren't sure how the words were related. After the story, she told us the most of the words were nouns. A noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing. We found the two verbs on the list and crossed them off. We looked for other nouns in our word of the day sentence. Then, we sang a new song about nouns. We added it to our song and poetry folder. Last, we did a paper where we sorted nouns into person, place, or thing. Then, we had reading workshop. After that, we practiced a dress rehearsal of our reader's theater for tomorrow's performance. At movie time, we watched a movie about Thanksgiving and Plimoth Plantation. We learned a few new facts. At the end of the day, we put on out pattern headbands, our necklaces, and our vests. We went to share our cranberry bread with first grade at our feast. We sang some of the songs and poems from our folder. We ate cranberry bread, trail mix, popcorn, and apple cider. It was so yummy fun! We were so thankful for our feast. A special thanks to Mrs. Welty and Mrs. Carlisle for setting up and helping with the feast. Thanks to all who donated paper products!