School Recap: November

Wow! It's hard to believe that November is already over! Here's some of what we were up to this past month! 

Emma Lee has learned all about how to identify and label adverbs (actually started last month but I forgot to write it) and adjectives! She knows all the questions to ask to find these along with the subject noun and verbs, and she can sit down with a list of sentences and do them all by herself. Even though it's technically Emma Lee's work, Kerri has been doing it along with us and has learned a lot of it too!

 

Sometimes we like to mix things up a bit and do our sentences on the floor instead of paper. 

Our "extra" stuff this month was centered around fall and Thanksgiving. We read a lot of Thanksgiving books, and one of their favorites was The Littlest Pilgrim. 

 

The girls drew the "littlest pilgrim" and then used adjectives to describe her at different points in the story. They also wrote a little summary of the book. 

Instead of doing journal writing for part of the month, we did "thankful books." The girls actually did this part on their own every day, so I didn't even look to see what they wrote until the end and got quite a few laughs from Emma Lee's. 

We learned about about pilgrims and the Mayflower. We had some friends of ours come over and go through a "virtual tour" of the Mayflower with us, and they all picked what they would take with them in their suitcases if they had to leave and go to another country (they didn't get too detailed with these because they were all ready to move on to snack time where they made pilgrim hat cookies!). 

 

 

We also learned about Indians and how they helped the pilgrims. We had another fun snack (I wasn't very on the ball with fun snacks last month, but I think I made up for it this month!) relating to Indians. We also learned that these Indians didn't really live in teepees, but the girls didn't mind eating them anyway! 

 It also just so happened that our Tennessee Flat Stanley brought back the girls these cute hairbows made by Indians living there! The girls thought they were great!

We did some leaf projects, fall painting, and had another fun "acorn" snack, and had a great Thanksgiving break spent in NC. 

We've had 6 of our Flat Stanleys return, and the girls have enjoyed learning about California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, and New York. Thanks so much if you have sent one back (and for the rest of you, it's not too late!) ;) 

All the other subjects are going great, and Kerri has really turned a corner with her reading! She did great reading with me if I sat down and listened to her, but she didn't really think she was a good reader, and she never instigated reading on her own or even tried to read things like signs in stores or on the road. One day she realized that she was reading a "chapter book" (like Emma Lee does), and she was so excited. It was like she had just then discovered that she really could read. She's reading a lot more now on her own and loves to surprise me by reading signs while we're in the car. 

I think that about sums it up! I still can't believe the end of this year will be here before we know it!