It’s November! Gobble, gobble. It’s the first Friday of November! Gobble, gobble. It’s time for a giveaway! Gobble! So how can you enter this month’s fine-feathered giveaway? Simply tell us one skill you’re introducing to your students this November. Leave your comment on the blog before midnight, Wednesday, November 12, and you’ll be entered to win a trio of Thanksgiving picture books: Turkey Trouble, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (a Thanksgiving pie!), and Pete the Cat: The First Thanksgiving. How fun is that?
Looking forward to hear from you! Gobble, gobble!
Diane
***Congratulations to Cara, the winner of this month’s First Friday Giveaway! ***
PS: And here’s a First Friday bonus—my pal Karen is giving away four $25 DonorsChoose gift cards at the Learning blog! You can use it for a start at funding a project for your classroom or help a fellow teacher out by donating it to support his or her project. What fun! Click here to check it out.
I am introducing tearing to my three year olds this month. We are making “torn” leaves for our fall trees!
In Kindergarten we are learning to add to 10! (We’re learning subtraction within 10, too, but that is WAY harder for us to understand!!)
This month we are learning about shapes and patterns. It will end with the children making a really cute placemat that they get to take home and use for Thanksgiving.
I am sharing close reading lessons that incorporate annotations. I am helping students remember this through the use of a snow covered visual with tracks in the snow…close reading/annotating is leaving “tracks of our thinking” so others can see.
we are going to attempt to learn syllables this month – I have never done this before, so I’m excited to introduce it!
We are working on main idea and details.
We got a grant for a professional storyteller visiting artist so this month we are working on adding details to stories.
I am introducing making and revising predictions.
In kindergarten we are working on telling time to the hour.
We will be comparing and contrasting…using our favorite Thanksgiving foods!
I am helping my 3 year olds learn their first letter sounds of their names. For example….PPP_Pilgrim-who has the P sound at the beginning of their name? Yes, PPP-Paul has the P sound!!
In our 3 year old class, we are working really hard on knowing the numbers 1-4 by sight. We are sorting them out (I found some GREAT number shaped pasta), looking for them and putting stickers on them, sorting out magnets into like piles, and playing games like Bingo with them! LOTS of number fun!
we are learning about the holiday of Thanksgiving.
We are working on sensory skills such as touch with textured papers in Occupational Therapy. Our projects are theme based for the month with leaves, acorns, turkeys, and Thanksgiving. These books would be Great to collaborate on projects with the teachers!
We have been discussing Native. Americans, Pilgrims, the Mayflower,etc. Went to New Pond Farm to experience how the Native Americans live, gong to the Ogden House next week to experience how Colonial Americans lived followed by one last trip the following week to the Old Academcy School house. Total emersion. We all love it!!!
Reading for meaning–I work with several English language learners that can read the words on the page, but they cannot tell you what they read.
I’m teaching letter writing using questions and
answers with our grade one penpals from
North Carolina. We are in Ohio and the teacher
and I only met on FB. At the end of the year we
facetime so the kids can actually “meet” each
orher.
Two months into my new preschool class, we are working on using our words to express our emotions, rather than yelling & hitting. This has been an ongoing social skill we’ve been working on, with Thanksgiving coming and discussions of thankfulness & kindness, it has helped reiterate the importance of using our words!!!
Planning to teach plot
I am introducing descriptive writing to my 1st graders. We are actually using the book Turkey Trouble to do an activity where we read the story, “disguise” a turkey, and write a descriptive piece about our turkey. The kids love it and the turkeys are so cute to display!
We introduce ordinal numbers on Monday. It’s often a difficult concept for pre-k students.
If anyone has ideas for helping 4–year-olds with that concept, please share. Thank you! 🙂
They are being introduced to different methods of painting.They have been using fingers, brushes, cotton balls and swabs. Next they will try toes, marbles and string. The list is endless and so is the joy.
In first grade we are introducing animals in November.
Our preschoolers are learning about hibernation, migrating and adapting as we prepare for the Minnesota winter.
I am teaching Thankfulness to my 3 year olds , what it means to be thankful 🙂
We are learning the parts of a story & how to create stories in my pre-k class.
We have been busy learning about apples this week, plus autumn leaves, and deciduous and evergreen trees.
Decomposing number to 10.
We are learning ordinal numbers first, second, third. I have three children form a line and then call on a child in the circle to touch the second child, another to touch the first and another to touch the third. We also use small plastic animals in the same way. This also translates into our story time where the children tell me what happened first, second, and third.
We are learning where thanksgiving began and giving thanks.
Learning about scarcity in third grade economics.
We have begun learning sight words in 4 year using who let the word out. Its amazing how quickly they are learning them
teaching our first graders how to navigate the PebbleGo website to research community helpers.
We are working on writing our names, starting with our tracing name sheets on individual dry erase boards (DVD cases)!
We are working on rhyming words. We are reading rhyming stories about Thanksgiving and making some turkey crafts.
We have been learning our colors by having “a color of the week.” We wear something each day and do daily activities with our chosen color…the children love sharing what they are wearing in our color, then we sing to them…”whenever (Name) has their (color) shoes, dress, hat, shirt, or pants on, we will sing a song for them.” Soooooo fun!
i am teaching my second graders about counting money.
This would be great for my class!
I would love to use these when we work on persuasive writing. We always persuade people not to eat Tom!
We will be adding more details to our writing.
We put words together to make a sentence.
I am introducing main idea, author’s point of view, and theme. I hoping to use a lot of fun holiday books this morning. Fall is my favorite season.
I teach a K-4th grade Autism classroom and one skill that we are working on is answering wh questions. My students are able to read a story but after reading the story, they struggle with answering questions about what they just read. We are starting with picture books and then working our way up to more difficult texts.
My 3 and 4 yr. Old’s have been mixing primary Colors
to make new Colors so this month we are going to mix all the primary Colors together to make the Color brown
My SPED kids are working on opinion writing and they are the hardest. Working kids i know. We love connecting books to our writing!
Hibernation and migration
I am introducing sequencing to my K’s. We’re talking about beginning, middle and ending. Turkey Trouble easily lends itself to a sequencing activity. What did he dress as first, next, next….
I am introducing addition to 10 with my students.
We are learning how to write persuasive letters in first grade.
We are working on learning the teen numbers.
We will be working on AB and AAB patterns!
I am introducing box and whisker plots.
Working on sequencing
We’re going to be working on main ideas and supporting details with a couple of my groups and then some articulation skills with other kids!
I am going to introduce patterns and working on the teen numbers…….any ideas about teaching teen numbers to preschoolers?
teaching Main Idea and Details
The history of Thanksgiving, number words, and plot prediction. Whew!
Counting 1-5
I am working on letter recognition with my class of 4-5 yr. olds. We have a letter of the day scavenger hunt. I put out a list with the upper and lower case letter and a box of pencils. They have so much fun as they try to be the first to circle all the letters.
I am working on counting syllables.
My 2 and 3 year olds are learning how to take turns. I use my ipad to play a Preschool Basics game which covers shapes, colors, sequencing, counting, patterns, and remembering skills. The children must sit in their own spot and take turns if they want to play the game. Each day they get a little better at sharing and learn a little more prekindergarten skills!
We are starting informational writng. We are going to try news articles and start a classroom newspaper.
I’m introducing shapes and starting numbers.
I have introduced beginning letter sounds this month.
We are working on summarizing and writing detailed sentences.
Reading comprehension.
In first grade we are learning about the difference between fact and opinion and how to do an opinion writing.
I will be teaching Place value to 1000.
In kindergarten, we are learning all about Veterans Day, understanding that it includes sailors, marines, and airmen as well as soldiers, and honoring their tribe’s modern day warriors (at our tribal school).
I have introduced tearing paper. That helps develop many skills and I have a younger group so this is a good skill to teach.
As a reading tutor and former speech/language pathologist, I am introducing morphology to help my students increase their skills in identifying and comprehending word meanings, as well as improve their spelling skills. 🙂
In preschool we are learning about Dino ‘s
Monkey’s/ venetians day
Thanksgiving and all about being a giving person
I love this month it’s so fun to teach
This week we have done some really cool monkey crafts
Monkey made from our hands & feet!!
Monkey books
Then next week it’s turkey’s made from our hands gobble gobble songs..
A huge thanksgiving snack the Monday befor thanksgiving … And my class are gonna be pilgrims !!!!! So much fun and so much to be thankful for!
I am introducing at at family sight words to my preschoolers how awesome it is for me to hear them read their first sentence such as I see the cat, i love being a teacher
Well let’s see. I am teaching buttons and zips. Our weather was thirty today! We call it the coat magic. Hood by your feet arms in the sleeves. Flip it over your head. Ta Da! Right side up its magical
November is the time for my family theme. The children bring in pictures of their families and we discuss how they are the same and different. We discuss what family members do for each other to make them feel loved and happy. Then we make beautiful frames for our pictures and hang them up in the classroom to admire.
Area and Perimeter
Extending sentences to add detail
My EDK class begins this month and we will be working on the numbers 1-5.
Main Idea & Details with First Thanksgiving story!
We are learning facts about turkeys. We will use our knowledge about shapes to create a turkey and label its parts.
In my preschool classroom we just started a unit on clothing…. This week it’s recognizingthe features of clothing! 🙂
My second graders are working on money up to $1.
We are learning about author’s purpose.
We are working on main idea and supporting details.
In first grade we are practicing our sentence writing by decorating a turkey so he can hide from Farmer Brown. We are then writing sentences to explain how our turkey is “hiding” and can escape! We’re having so much fun!
My first graders will be disguising their turkeys and writing about how to make the best pie.
Working on compare and contrast texts with first grade!
We are doing patterning with three different colored turkey feathers.