While the story was a bit confusing for everyone, we did discuss the first Thanksgiving in class. See if your child can remember the words "pilgrim" and "Native American." We also talked about WHO we are giving thanks to on Thanksgiving: God! I could tell all of our sweet friends already have thankful hearts. One student even shared that he was most thankful for God! So sweet. We enjoyed sharing our pictures and discussing all of the blessings we have.
With it being Thanksgiving, we of course had fun making turkeys, dancing like turkeys, singing about turkeys, and even eating a fun turkey snack (thanks to Kate)! As we learned about the letter T, we made a very cute letter T craft with our hand prints, painted stand-up turkeys with water color paint, and put feathers on our own turkeys. We also practiced counting with turkeys and sorting colors with turkeys!
To work on literacy this week, we read a wide variety of Thanksgiving books, including The Littlest Pilgrim, 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Pilgrims; Thanks for Thanksgiving, and 10 Fat Turkeys. We also practiced the poem "5 Little Turkeys" multiple times using our turkey finger puppets. Each week, we try to give the students time to read independently (look at books) themselves. This is such an important piece of early literacy development!
We can't wait to see all of these little turkeys after Thanksgiving!
Here are some things to ask your child this week. See if they can remember...
1. How to make the letter T and what sound it makes.
2. How to write the numbers 2, 3, and 4.
3. Our Bible story (Naomi and Ruth).
4. How to help you read "5 Little Turkeys" using their finger puppet!
5. Our Bible verse of the month (Psalm 111:1).
6. The words "pilgrim" and "Native Americans."
*As a side not, just a reminder that I keep some type of artwork or work from each student every week to put in their portfolio, if you ever wonder why something doesn't come home!
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| Taking our clothing donations down to the Mustard Seed!  |
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| We had fun putting the feathers on our turkeys! |
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| Such hard workers! |
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| Trying to stay warm on the playground! |
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Reading is so fun! |
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| Phoenix loved stamping the story of Thanksgiving! |
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| So much fun working with friends! |
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| Katelyn and Kate always enjoy working together! |
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| Phoenix was giving a concert while she worked! :) |
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| We loved making turkey crafts with Mrs. Nicole! |
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| We got a surprise delivery of balloons!! |
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| If you have balloons delivered, you might as well make them the math lesson! |
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| Thank you to Kate for bringing such a fun snack! |
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| We loved painting turkeys! |
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| The sensory bin was full of feathers! |
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| We are becoming such good friends! |
