Upcoming Events. Retell Rope, and Fairytales

Hello!  Let's start this post by discussing some of our upcoming events.  Our Thanksgiving feast is approaching quickly.  If you volunteered to bring in items for the feast, please have them here no later than Monday, November 23rd.  Also, if you volunteered your time for the feast please arrive at the school no later than 10:45a.m. on the day of the feast.  A huge thank you goes out to everyone who is volunteering in some way to help our Thanksgiving feast be successful.  This is an event that we have done for years and we are thrilled to continue the tradition again this year.  A really big thank you is extended to Burger's Smokehouse for donating the turkey for the day.  I'd also like to give a shout out to our cafeteria as they donate the mashed potatoes for the day too.  The rest of the meal is provided by our wonderful parents that donated food items.  And lastly, a big thank you to our custodial staff for setting up the tables and chairs in the multipurpose for this fun event. We plan to spend the afternoon with our pre-k buddies decorating turkey cookies (again donated by our generous parents).

The first graders have been working on their upcoming musical Christmas on Candy Cane Lane.  Mrs. Friedrich delivered the parts for this musical on Friday.  All parts were handed out on Friday and placed in your child's blue homework folder.  Please put this information in a safe place.  If your child has lines or lyrics for this program, please be sure that he/she is practicing them nightly for our program.  We will be going out to the high school performing arts center the week of the program to practice.  We will also have our dress rehearsal on the 17th of December during school.  The musical will be performed for parents and the community on December 17th at 7 p.m. in the high school performing arts center.

We've been spending the last week reading fairytales and learning how to retell a story using key details from the text.  The students have been using our class retell rope to help aide in their retelling of the story.  My favorite fairytale versions are those retold by James Marshall.  We read his version of the Godilocks and the Three Bears and the students learned how to retell a story in sequence with the retell rope I created for them.

We then used what we knew and read James Marshall's versions of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Hood.  It seemed only fitting after reading each of these fairytales that I introduced the students to some fractured fairytales....fairytales with a twist.  We then read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Hot and compared them with the original fairytales.  Our goal was to also read one to compare with Godilocks, but time just didn't allot for it.  We will continue our work on comparing and contrasting next week to finish out the unit.

I will be back next week with a post filled with pictures from our feast.  Remember we just have 2 short days this week.  Monday is the last collection day for Major Savor cards.  Progress reports will go home on Tuesday the 24th.  Also don't forget there is NO SCHOOL on Wednesday November 25th - Friday November 27th.