Mrs. Rachel's Three's Class: Thankful Hearts

We are thankful for another wonderful week at preschool! Really and truly, Mrs. Katie and I are so thankful to get to be with this sweet group each week.

With Thanksgiving being this coming week, we learned about and celebrated Thanksgiving a week early. We read a book about the first Thanksgiving, several books about being thankful, and several fun turkey books (of course)! We enjoyed doing a variety of fun turkey activities, making turkeys from Fruit Loops and creating turkeys out of paper strips.

We also used turkeys to help us with our math skills this week. A few of our fun activities included gluing 5 feathers on a turkey and stuffing a turkey bye rolling a dice and counting. We also spent a lot of time talking about what we are thankful for. Our biggest desire is that every child left with a thankful heart this week. We all took time to talk about and write down what we were thankful for. The sweet notes will be added to your child's portfolio (and can be found right now in the hallway).

We also had fun making a heart craft that we will give to our grandparents next week at Grandparents Day. Thank you so much to my sister Melody (Mollie's mom) who came in to help us make these!

Some of the skills we worked on this week were the letter T and sorting words by initial sound (using a fun turkey game). We continue to use a sight word book each week to work on learning how to turn pages and looking for letters we know in the text. We also had fun with our poem this week, "Five Little Turkeys". You can find our fun Five Little Turkeys song in your child's poetry folder. We also continued to review the numbers one through five, as well as counting to 10. We are working towards everyone being able to count to 20 now. This is something that you can practice all week at home!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Over Thanksgiving break, see if your child can...

1. Help you write down things your family is thankful for.

2. Tell your family our November verse. "I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart."

3. Practice counting to 20.

4. Help you cook something.

5. Find a circle, rectangle, triangle, and square in your home.