Mrs.O'Bryan's

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Happy Friday! We are barreling toward Thanksgiving and Christmas and having a great time in the process! We worked on some special projects this week, and will continue to do so next week. We had a wonderful time visiting with Grandparents on Wednesday. They loved performing their song and sharing their snack time! We enjoyed another awesome compliment party! We loved being shoeless in our pajamas. We feasted on popcorn, pretzels and cookies while talking about/showing what we are grateful for. Many were thankful for family, friends and pets! We also welcomed Mrs. Thompson as our Mystery Reader. She read us 3 awesome books for which we were fairly attentive!

This week, as we learned more about pumpkins, we made 'pumpkin stew'! I gave them each a recipe card. They had to read the card (the number and the picture) count out that many ingredients and put them in their bowl to make their pumpkin stew. We graphed those same items on our graphing sheet. Counting how many and then coloring that many squares. We practiced some letters on our magna doodles while Mrs. O'Bryan did a few repeat assessments from October. Lastly, we made turkeys with all our awesome toilet paper rolls we have. They love playing with those things so I was glad we could use them for an art project together. 

Next week we will continue to work on some surprises and prepare for Thanksgiving. I put a 'turkey' cut out and our board and next week we will fill our turkey with the feathers of things we are thankful for! We will focus solely on Thanksgiving next week, having completed our pumpkin theme.  We did not have a chance to work in our HWT's book this week, but we will next week (looking at V/W/6/7). 

In addition to some of our secret projects, we will also be working on an art project for Mrs. Gatewood (which will be a surprise for Mrs. Gatewood) and we will work on an art project to decorate our door with when we return from break. We have been extra busy and that will not change next week either!

Some of you may be aware that this week is no exception to things going around, so continue to talk to your child about good hand washing and not putting toys in our mouth (for the most part this class is good about that, but THEY DO still put their hands in their mouth). We have been talking on and off about how germs spread and things we can do to keep ourselves and our friends healthy, so certainly continue to echo that at home. We did not have a day this week where we were all here. Hopefully that changes next week. 

I hope everyone has a safe and healthy weekend and I look forward to seeing everyone next week!