Thanksgiving Celebration

So thankful for these cuties!

We had a wonderful time during our Thanksgiving Celebration this week!

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Happy Thanksgiving!!

THANKFUL...

I am so thankful for my Kindergarten Friends…

THANKFUL BOOKS

We are welcoming parents tomorrow for our Thanksgiving Celebration. 

The students will be performing several songs and then we will head down to our classroom for snacks and a family craft. 

The children will also be sharing their Thankful books. I {love, love, love} them!!

Celebrating Scott

Happy, happy birthday to my son Scott!!

{2013}

{2005}

Where has the time gone???

Wordless Wednesday (Why I Love Kinder...)

Gobble Gobble

Oh I just love these adorable scrapbook turkeys!

Every student takes a totally different approach and adds their own creative touches.

Love these and the little turkeys that created them. :)

My kindergarten friends always enjoy this fun art project. Check out past scrapbook turkeys here.  Here are some other fun things I have pinned for November:

 You can follow my other boards HERE!

I won! Yipeee!!

I am SO EXCITED!!!

Kathleen from Growing Kinders just emailed to let me know that I won her AMAZING 

Rock Around the Clock

Math and Literacy Fun for the 50th Day!!

I just had a chance to look through all of it.

WOW! 

It is amazing!

I look forward to using it next year. 

Please go check out her pack HERE!

Thanks Kathleen for being so generous!! :) 

Diwali

Anica's mom visited this week to teach us about Diwali!

Anica's dad was born in India and her grandparents live there now. 

Anica and Mrs. Rane shared a book about Diwali. We learned about this very special celebration of lights.

We also learned about sand art - rangoli.

She shared several great clips on youtube.

Click HERE to check them out. 

Traditionally, the sand art is created outside at their door step. We decided to create the sand art on paper in our classroom.

The children loved this... and loved learning about new traditions. 

The students did a wonderful job and were SUPER creative. I wish I would have snapped more pictures. 

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I had Anica's sister in Kindergarten a few years ago. Mrs. Rane did a special Diawli presentation then too. You can read about that HERE.

 Thank you so much Missy, Sofia, and Anica, for sharing your family's wonderful traditions with us! 

Ten Black Dots

To wrap up our numbers unit we created these pictures inspired by Donald Crews' book 10 Black Dots. 

I just love watching the students being so creative!

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