We are Thankful for You!

We welcomed friends and family to our room on this short and sweet week, to showcase all that we do in SK P217, and to share our thanks with the special people in our lives!





Language

Shhhh Gifts - We created something extra special to share with moms and dads (it's wrapped and hiding in your SKer's Friday Folder for you to open on Thanksgiving!)  We hope our SK families like our gift, and can tell that we stretched loads of tricky words!
Journals - We are turkey experts!  We wrote a big idea ("I am a turkey expert!") and supported our big idea with evidence.  We used a "Turkeys Can - Turkeys Have - Turkeys Are" format for our details, and word-stretched lots of interesting turkey tid-bits that we've picked up in all of our research!





Math

Money Measuring - We used our coin collections of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to measure our partner's feet, our thumbs, even the lenght of our names!  It was interesting to notice how measuring the same object with different coins changed the measurement!  Sometimes ten pennies made the same length as only eight nickels... those coins really are all different sizes!
Turkey Squeeze - Ask your SKer about how to play "Turkey Squeeze" - they think of a number between one and ten, or one and twenty, and place to turkeys on either side of a number line (they could draw them, use stickers, etc.)  They let you guess a number, and then say "My number's bigger/smaller than that!" and move the left or the right turkey to shrink the numbers you can select from.  Eventually, once you guess enough times and they narrow down the numbers, the two turkeys will "squeeze" only one number (the one they were thinking of!)





Science

Turkeys Can/Have/Are - We made a HUGE list of different turkey traits!  Ask your SKer about some turkey trivis they can share; what turkeys have on their bodies, what they're called (male, female, baby), where they live, how they travel, what they eat, and what eats them!





Extra!  Extra!  Announcements

Sleeping Bags - Thank you for remembering to bring back clean and cozy sleeping bags for our daily rest time!  We are trying to keep germs and bugs at bay.  Your help is appreciated, and our room smeels delightful lately!
Special Helpers/Show and Share - Trevor is our last special helper for this round, on the Monday we return.  We will take a short break from show and share, and gear up for sharing Holiday Traditions in December!
Special Days - Coming up soon... Fiona's Superstar Day on Thursday 11/29!





Coming Up Next

Mitten Tree - When we return from Thanksgiving break, we'll begin our special SK service project - we'll send home the song to help you practice singing our cause out to friends and family!
Holiday Sing - We'll be getting extra close to the big day (and creating special invitations for you, with all the details!)
Science Study - We'll be brainstorming good SK ideas for what to study next - there's so much to choose from, explor, and learn about together in December!
Family Traditions - We'll be sharing SK holidy celebration styles when we return and get into December.  We'll be sure to send lots of extra information when the time is right!