We Are Thankful!

We spent some time this week being thankful for the many people that help us at school and in our families and community...  The students wrote thank you notes to many people in our school. 

We are thankful this week for the Upper Tanana Health Center for allowing us to come over on a field trip to learn about x-rays, our hearts, and how to stay healthy!  We had a great walk over from the school, and stopped by the big snow mountain in the parking lot on the way home!

We are also thankful for the many family members who volunteer their time to help us in our classroom and on field trips!  Thank you to Cody and Lily Omta for helping out on our field trip this week, and to Scott and Kelly, Trapper Holmes' grandparents for coming in this week to help us make pies and do math!  I am also grateful for Jill Kranenburg and Michelle Erickson who come in every week to help with reading groups.  You make a BIG difference in our classroom!!!  

Here is Trapper's Grandpa helping the kids learn how to read a recipe and make thanksgiving pies!

We are VERY thankful for our awesome 5th grade Book Buddies!!!  We were able to make some extra pie filling (with the last of the cranberries that we picked this fall!!) and share an apple cranberry crisp with our Book Buddies on Wednesday while we read stories together.  We love reading with our Book Buddies, and not only are they great readers, but I have seen them being so kind to the kindergarteners all around the school... they play with them at recess, give them hugs in the halls...they are just the best!

We were very thankful for food this Thanksgiving week, and had lots of fun making pies and bread!  In science we are studying nutrition, so we learned about the grain group and did an experiment to see how yeast adds air bubbles to bread.  Here, yeast is blowing up a balloon!  We focused on working together while we read our bread recipe and made bread, and then watched The Little Red Hen, about some animals that did NOT work together to make their bread!  

I am thankful this Thanksgiving for every single amazing, wonderful, talented, and adorable student in my class, their families who support their learning at home, and the teachers and staff at Tok School who make Tok School a great place to learn, play, and grow!  Happy Thanksgiving!!!