Thanksgiving Day Parade 2013

Here is a link to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 2013. We watched the beginning in class but thought the kids might want to watch the rest.

Parade

Thanksgiving Challenges

Here are a few "challenges" students may work on over Thanksgiving break. If they complete the Greg Tang math one, it is worth $40 of classroom money. If they complete the Thanksgiving anagram sheet it is worth $20 of classroom money. Please feel free to work with them on it!!

Greg Tang Challenge 

Thanksgiving Anagrams

Newsletter 11/24/2015

Happy Thanksgiving! I know we are so thankful for our parents that support our classroom and learning. Your child might not tell you enough but they are so grateful for the time you spend shuttling them to activities, supporting them and helping them with their schoolwork. Ms. Wells and Mrs. Farr are so thankful for your children. They provide us with the encouragement to try our best in teaching them, they work their hardest every day, their jokes, and their hugs all make each day in our classrooms amazing!!

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade-Our Balloons

This week we read the book Balloons Over Broadway about the creation of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and how the balloons were started.

We discussed different features of the illustrations and why illustrators might rotate pictures, only show part of a picture, or use different mediums for their drawings. We also used this book to talk about our fiction signposts (make sure to ask your child about these)

Check out our balloon creations:

We believe in miracles!

Check out our 5th graders as they send love, prayers, and miracles to this awesome 5th grader from Ohio! Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers! I am so proud of your kids and the heart they have shown! 

http://local12.com/m/news/features/top-stories/stories/Community-support-gives-10-year-old-with-terminal-cancer-hope-226915.shtml

Chapter 2 Social Studies

With this chapter we will be studying the movement of man. How did American Indians get to North America? Why did they come and how did they come?

Chapter 2 Handouts

Chapter 2 PowerPoint

Chapter 2 text

Chapter 2 Enrichment Reading

Also we will be reading about one of the most facinating groups the Inuits and how they adapted in unique ways to their environment.

Greg Tang Math

Dear Parents,

We are participating in a math challenge for Halloween. (Even if you do not celebrate Halloween you can still participate as this is nothing to do with the holiday its just the name given to the math challenge.

You can find all the information at http://halloween.gregtangmath.com 

Students will spend time each day playing games. Parents will initial as each square is completed. We have done the first square at school.

Greg Tang math website is also a great website to practice those math skills.

Thanks for helping your child be more successful with their math!!

http://gregtangmath.com