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It's Thanksgiving week!! Short week!! We've been enjoying our new classroom up on the third floor. We're working on lots of Thanksgiving activities this week (mostly from edhelper.com) and learning Bible verses by listening to Hermie & Friends. Miah is working on Multiplication this week. Last week we did lots of borrowing and re-grouping AND verb sheets. Since it's a short week, we will not have spelling or Bible tests this week. Davis has been doing a great job with his letter sounds. We are FINALLY making progress! His math is coming along pretty good. Today he'll be getting lots of number and shapes practice at the blackboard!

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It's been a busy week! We moved the classroom up to the 3rd floor. This is just one corner. We actually have so much more room to work and store our things now!

We had a field trip last week to Midway Village and we learned lots about the pioneering days in our hometown. This week we had co-op. We're learning about the Pilgrims & Indians. Did you know that the early Americans believed that by taking a bath they were washing off all their protection from diseases? They only bathed once a month! No wonder so many of the early settlers died.

I signed up for a membership with www.edhelper.com and it's been wonderful having so many worksheets at my fingertips. This week Miah worked on:

Math - regrouping & borrowing

Grammar - identifying being & doing verbs in sentences

Handwriting - cursive sentences

Spelling - ck/k words

Bible - Matt 22:37-38

*she also read a short story about Thomas Edison and had a quiz on that.

Davis is working really hard on letter sounds and practicing writing his letters. I talked with Mrs. Schmidt at RCS and she said that it's not uncommon for kids to go into 1st grade still not knowing most of their letter sounds. She said that boys in particular sometimes need more time and that usually by mid-year first grade it kicks in. In math, he's doing a great job with addition but oddly still doesn't recognize all his numbers. He has to use a chart. I just keep trying new things and plugging along. He'll get it.