Friday Update Nov 17 to 21

Dear Parents,

We had another fun week in the yellow starfish classroom!!!  A BIG THANK YOU to all of our parents who came on our Wet Market Field Trip!  I hope you had fun—the kiddos were chattering about the trip for the rest of the day J  We cut up the veggies, made a soup, and had a small in class Thanksgiving celebration. J (Everyone tried our soup and cornbread!  Some even asked for seconds!  There were a couple who didn’t LOVE the soup, but I’m proud of them for trying it out!)  Find some of our other activities below…

*learned the name, sounds, letter formation for Cc (hard and soft) and Kk. 

*added kernels of corn to our Kk and cotton to our feely letter Cc.

*brainstormed and wrote Cc and Kk words in our alphabet journals.

*estimated and counted tiny plastic cats that were in our class estimation jar.

*continued to sing Albuquerque Turkey, Let’s Be Thankful, and Hello Mr. Turkey.  We sang a lot!

*learned why the Native American Indians were important to the Pilgrims and how they were involved with the first Thanksgiving. 

*learned about the life cycle of a plant and saw how planting corn seeds is a little different than pumpkin seeds.

*made corn bread (YUM!!!!!! Most of the cuties asked for seconds!!!!! J)

*measured a Cucumber and a Carrot with unifix cubes and saw how many blocks long each was, and then decided which vegetable was longer and which one was shorter.

*made Thanksgiving headbands (they are pretty darn cute! )

*made a placemat by dipping cut up veggies into paint and stamping them on our paper.

*talked about and drew what we are thankful for.  The cuties did such a good job, I HAD to take pictures of each other them.  See the blog J

RECIPE FOR CORN BREAD

Last year I had several requests for the cornbread recipe we made. I thought I would preempt that this year but just giving it to you! It is a very easy one to do at home with your cuties.

1 cup yellow or white cornmeal

1 cup all purpose flour

2-4 tablespoons sugar (or honey) (optional)

4 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt (optional)

1 cup milk

1 egg beaten

¼ cup vegetable shortening or oil

Heat oven to 400f

Combine dry ingredients. Add oil, egg and milk.  Mix just until blended

Bake 20 – 25 minutes until golden brown and toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean

REMINDERS/IMPORTANT DATES

REMINDER: **Next week we only have school on Monday and Tuesday.**

Wednesday, November 26^th:   Faculty Inservice Day, No School for Students

Thursday, November 27^th and Friday November 28^th:  THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.  NO SCHOOL

*Please remember to turn in lunch forms to school

*Remember to return red library bags and blue Friday Folder bags every Monday (although blue bags are not going home until Tuesday this time J)

Thank you!!!  Have a wonderful weekend!!!!  Lynsey and Aidah