Tuesday

Hello families!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and long weekend! I am still feeling full of pie!

Today the Lifetouch photos are coming home. You can send your order to the school by Tuesday, October 22nd or you can order online! A lot of the photos remind me of Chandler from friends - they have the cutest smiles until they get in front of the camera 😂 Photo retakes will be on Tuesday, November 12th if you need them!


For weekly words this week, students could choose a list of Thanksgiving words. Since there are only 3.5 days this week, I thought I'd just give the word lists again and we'll go back to normal next Monday! This morning we also took a look at some writing samples and students shared what they liked or didn't like about the writing. We focused on things like: spelling, finger spaces, sky/grass/dirt letters, neatness, and effort! Students did some writing about their weekend and Thanksgiving and they definitely put in a lot more effort with their writing and pictures!

Sky, Grass & Dirt Letters!

At some point during the day, we started talking about syllables. We talked about how many syllables are in our names and did this fun Go Noodle activity.

In the afternoon we had Daily 5, library and guest reader! Tomorrow we will have a special guest! My cousin, who is an education student in Red Deer, will be coming to our classroom to observe!

OOPS! I forgot the Weekly Words in my original post...
pie, ate, fall, bake, bun, red
acorn, apple, dinner, gravy, family, friends
holiday, dessert, celebrate, grateful, thankful, autumn 

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