Thanksgiving Week

Who gets sick on top of being on crutches the week of Thanksgiving? That would be me. I sniffling and blowing my nose as I type {insert sad face here}. I am totally bummed because I now have a fever so no school for me tomorrow. My teaching partner and I were going to a Thanksgiving feast and I am upset I can't be there {think super sad face now}. Luckily though, I have a wonderful substitute!

Here are a few things we did this week in my class:

We read my turkey emergent reader book. When I introduced it, I used the pocket chart activity. I now have this in my pocket chart literacy station. At the station, the students will put the strips in order, match up the pictures to the correct sentence, and then I have each word written on a separate card for them to match up with the words on the sentence strips. You can purchase this activity and emergent reader {here}.

We made these super cute turkeys to decorate the hall outside my classroom. That is pretty much all the space I have in the hall.....not much, but we make it work {think of Tim Gunn saying this :)}. I got this idea from Michelle Griffo over at Apples and ABC's {here}.

Then we read the story "Turkey Trouble" which my class LOVED! We completed the turkey in disguise activity by Deanna Jump. You can download this freebie {here}.

This little guy disguised his turkey as Batman and the reward is a wii.

This little lady disguised her turkey as a flower.

And this turkey is disguised as Santa complete with a sleigh and a reindeer. His reward was 13 legos.

I just adored how creative my students were with this activity. It was wonderful to see.

That pretty much sums up our week so far. Tomorrow is only a half day of school and then teacher meetings which I will unfortunately be missing since I am sick. Before I leave I have to share my super cool photo with you....ha!

Are dress pants, gym shoes, and crutches super stylish or what? {insert eye roll}