I want to start by apologizing for getting behind on my blogging. I hope you enjoy the plethora of information and photos contained in this post, and it helps you see all your child has learned throughout this thanksgiving season. Hopefully you were also able to take a peek into our "Thankful Book" and see all we are thankful for!
Native Americans
Math Activities:
- Sort feathers with shapes on them onto the turkey with a matching shape drawn on. Shapes used: rectangle, square, oval, circle, triangle, star, heart.
Pies labeled 1-15 needed dollops of "whipped cream" (cotton balls) to correspond with the number on the pie.
Lacing criss-cross and stringing beads to create a dreamcatcher.
Estimating "How many corn kernels?" and counting to 100
Measuring how many turkeys tall each friend was.
Literacy Activities:
- Writing our thankfulness book
- Sorting rhyming words into the correct pot to make a "soup"
- Sorting pictures to their beginning sound to "stuff" a turkey
- Thanksgiving books in our Reading Loft
- Create a stamped placemat with our Bible verse for the week (1 Thess. 5:18)
Other Activities:
- Create a thankfulness pocket
- Practice songs for our thanksgiving feast
- Create an Indian headdress and give an Indian name
Pilgrims
Math Activities:
- Number match using divided playing cards hidden in the sensory table
- Using large and small marshmallows to measure a line
- Use a light box to mix colors, then try on your own using paint
- Complete puzzles
- Use images to create a pattern of your choice
Literacy Activities:
- Thanksgiving books in the Reading Loft
- Use Playdoh to form the letters in "Thanksgiving"
- Sort alphabet crackers by letter in ABC order
- Create a Thanksgiving card to give to someone you love
- Make a placemat by painting with corncobs and adding our verse for the week (Ps. 100:4)
Other Activities:
- Use coffee filters to color and water to blend to create turkey feathers
- Make a pilgrim hat
- Construct the mayflower
- Practice feast songs
- Graph "Would you rather be a Pilgrim or a Native American?"
Thanksgiving Feast
For such a special week, we broke out of our math and literacy routine and had a time of free choice from the following activities:
- Create a turkey headband
- Decorate a cross to remind us to be thankful for Jesus
- Paint using feathers
- Turkey Bowling
- Pin the feather on the Indian
- Pin the hat on the Pilgrim
- Turkey bean bag toss
We also did the following group activities at other times:
- Make centerpieces
- Play "Pilgrim, Pilgrim, Indian" and make Indian cries as each child was chased
- Make Indian corn suncatchers
- Read Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown
- Play "Hunter and Turkeys," a version of "Shark and Minnows" where the turkeys tried to make it safely across a line without being tagged by a hunter and winding up Thanksgiving dinner
Thank you so much to all of our parents who helped make our Feast so special! In addition to all
of your contributions to make our delicious meal, I know several of you assisted in set-up, tear-down, and meal preparation. Without you, our feast could not have happened. Thank you!
Also thank you to each of your children for their hard work and practice each day to give you such a special performance. I am so proud of them!
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and look forward to seeing you November 30!
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| Kacie constructs her first pattern |
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| Jade counts the number of marshmallows covering her line |
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| Alexa adds more yellow paint to create another color |
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| Cade works on all those letters |
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| Our class creates colorful turkey feathers out of coffee filters |
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| Hank celebrates his bean bag placement |
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| Aw, so close to that turkey's belly! |
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| Nicholas shows true concentration as he mixes red and yellow to make orange |
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| Brianna lines up her marshmallows |
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| Ayla searches for the next letter's spot |
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| Brynn carefully forms her "h" |
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| Thayer traces his hand to make a turkey |
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| That's quite a few turkeys that just got bowled over! |
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| Ayla shows off the turkey hat she made |
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| Lydia works to cover all the clear space to create a beautiful suncatcher |
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| Connor searches for the Indian that lost his feather |
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| Owen helps spin Cade before pinning his pilgrim hat |
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| Playing "Pilgrim, Pilgrim, Indian" |
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| Who will be the next to chase? |
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| Brynn, Ayla, and Cameron give one last snack to our turtles before Thanksgiving break |
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| Look at all those hunters! |
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| Eric has a lot of turkeys to catch |
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| Looking around before our program begins |
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| Jade kept her listening ears while other classes sang |
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| "Albequerque Turkey" was our favorite, but "Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving" gave the most volume! |
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| Great job, everyone! |
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