Happy Thanksgiving!

Before we left for break, we read a Scholastic News about how wild turkeys are coming into towns/cities because their forests are being cut down.  The vocab words "tom," "hen," and "poult" were in the news.  The kids learned that a "tom" is a male turkey, "hen" is a female turkey, and "poult" is a baby turkey.  One of my students really enjoyed this article, because he made a family of turkeys to decorate our classroom.  He was able to tell me which was the tom, hen, and poult.  I loved that he was so excited about what he learned, that he went home and made his own turkeys! :)

Mrs. Carlson passed this along to the teachers the other day and I thought I would share it.  It's great advice from a great kid! :)

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Bowling and Morris Diner

Our TRAILS, STEPS, and PATH bowling and diner trip was a great success!  Bowling was a great activity and lunch was yummo!  I was very proud of my students on our trip: good listening, ordering lunch, paying for bowling/lunch, and following bus rules.  I think a great time was had by all! :)

I have some good bowlers!!!

Reptile visit

Look who came to CCIS today!!  Bill Bradley came to school today with his reptiles to educate and show the students.  He was AWESOME!!!  He told the kids about the animals, why they looked they way they did, what they would do in the wild, where they come from, and more.  It was wonderful to see the students excited to learn!!

Reading projects

We have been talking about nouns for several weeks now, and the students are doing a great job of identifying and explaining nouns.  We are "Nuts about Nouns!"

We also made Sight Word Trees.  To differentiate this activity for a student, she had lower case letters instead of  sight words.