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Another Wacky Wednesday in the books...

This morning the children had a guest teacher - Mrs. McDermott. As part of the BTSA (beginning teacher something or another) I am lucky enough to have a support provider on campus. This morning she led the class through opening, read A House for a Hermit Crab and Readers Workshop to give me the opportunity to observe Ms. Stryker in her classroom. This was very valuable and gave me tons of good ideas to implement.

After I returned, we worked on some handwriting -- the letter e. A song, similar to that used for the letter c, is an excellent way for children to remember how to form the letter. Straight line, go up around and down then stop. Straight line, go up around and down and stop. Straight line, go up around and down, let's make an e. Straight line, go up around and down and stop.. After learning and practicing the letter E, we listed words that began with e including elephant, Eesha, everyone, excellent, Eva, and ear.

We then practiced writing our first sight word: the. Students practiced forming the T - h- e and then reading the word "the". We've now placed it up on our word wall and should be able to read and write this word by the end of the week.

In Social Studies today, we talked about being thankful, and attached some of the feathers that have come in, to our classroom Thankful Turkey. It is starting to look really full and impressive. If you haven't yet worked on the "feathers" with your child, please do so and send them back.

Music today was led by Miss Ciampa and myself with Mrs. Kwiatkowski on piano. We sang several Thanksgiving themed songs and did a couple of songs with movement. Students were well behaved and participated fully during this half hour session. After lunch we listened to The Princess and the Pea and had some short time for choice.