Well Thanksgiving has come and gone! Whew, that went so quickly. I wanted to share a little about what we did at the end of November before we skip forward to the holidays!!
First off my class did a Reader's Theater presentation. We invite the families in to watch and it really is a fun afternoon.
We also made some interactive books about the First Thanksgiving which turned out so great.
They learned what Pilgrim children wore and the chores they did (which was a lot more than us). . .
They saw what the Pilgrims houses looked like and made a comparison to the First Thanksgiving Feast and their Thanksgiving dinner.
They learned about the Pilgrims long trip on the Mayflower. . .
We discussed crops that they planted . . .
One of the facts that really interested them was that there were two dogs aboard the Mayflower.
Apparently, it was so cramped that the dogs had to stand on top of each other. (Honestly, all three of these children sit at different tables so I thought it was too funny that they all drew it the same way).
As soon as they were done they wanted to flip through all the completed pages. I love that when they were finished they wanted to read them with each other!
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And on a final note. . .
I love it :-)
