We are all things THANKSGIVING this week! Last week we discussed author's purpose, so we are going to add to that this week. Yesterday we read the most hilarious book, 'Twas the Night before Thanksgiving, then we brainstormed a list of foods we could eat instead of turkey. They each chose one food and had to come up with three reasons why we should eat that particular food instead of turkey. For the next few days we will turn the brainstorming sheets into a persuasive essay, convincing our reader to not eat turkey for thanksgiving!
Also, we are throwing some social studies into the mix and learning about the First Thanksgiving. Yesterday we read about and discussed why the pilgrims left England. Today we will really dive into the voyage on the Mayflower. Scholastic has a great ineractive website that we will use throughout the week. Tomorrow and Thursday we will discuss the Mayflower Compact, and what life in "The New World" was like. I created little booklets to accompany the website. We will spend time working whole group, individually and in small groups to research using the ipads and computers.
There are no new spelling words this week. Just the sight word assignment and fluency passage.
We will see you Friday for the Turkey and Eagle performance at 2:15 in the gym!
