Happy Thanksgiving!

This past week has been all about turkeys and Thanksgiving.  The students enjoyed a cute little Thanksgiving song called "I'm a Little Turkey."  I will include the words to the song in case you want to sing it at home as well:

I'm a Little Turkey 

(sung to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a little turkey, look at me. (point to self)

I'm as chubby as can be. (arms out to side)

You might think I'd be a tasty bite. (rub tummy)

But I'll be hiding on Thanksgiving night. (hide face)

We strengthened our fine motor skills last week by making a turkey craft.  Cutting, gluing, painting, and making crafts all help to strengthen those essential fine motor skills that are needed for being able to hold a pencil and print letters as we get older.  

Stuff the turkey is another fun fine motor activity that we had available to the children this past week.  The challenge here is to create a turkey by poking the feathers into the holes of an upside down colander. 

We also strengthened our gross motor skills this past week by playing turkey bowling.  It was all laughs as the students stacked the turkey bowling pins and tried to knock them down with a fake pumpkin.  

Orange Shirt Day

Thank you to all of our PK families for participating in Orange Shirt Day.  It was nice to see so many of our students wearing orange as a reminder that every child matters.  We took the time on Orange shirt day to chat with our students about feelings, friendship, and being kind to one another.  We ended our lesson by singing along to Raffi's song "The More We Get Together."

Coming Up

Next week we will wrap up our unit on Thanksgiving and begin talking about Fall.  Important upcoming dates:

• October 8th - No School.  Thanksgiving Day.
• October 16th - Picture retakes in the afternoon.
• November 1st - PD Day - No School