Thanksgiving

We read Sarah Morton's Day and then compared us life with the Pilgrims' life. 

We created turkey glyphs and then collected, analyzed, and graphed our data.

We tasted turkey and graphed whether or not we like to eat it, and we also tasted cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie and graphed which was our favorite Thanksgiving food. 

Turkeys in Disguise

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Thanksgiving Feast

We completed our study of Thanksgiving with a feast. Each class brought one food item to share and we ate together in the kindergarten kitchen area. We had turkey, corn, mashed potatoes, rolls, pie, and juice. Thank you to all the parents who prepared or sent food for the feast. Some classes dressed like Pilgrims and some classes dressed like Native Americans (like our class!). We had a lot of fun recreating the first Thanksgiving!

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Native Americans

This week we learned about Thanksgiving. We talked about how the Pilgrims came to escape persecution. We discussed how the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims learn how to grow crops and hunt to provide food for their families. We also talked about how the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims build homes. On Friday, we had a Thanksgiving feast. Before that our class made Native American vests from grocery sacks and decorated them using markers. We also made headbands from sentence strips and construction paper feathers. The students had a lot of fun creating their outfit and choosing their Native American name for the feast!

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Turkeys in Disguise!

Each child was sent home with a turkey picture last week for homework. Students were to "dress" their turkeys in a disguise so they wouldn't be eaten at Thanksgiving dinner! Thank you to all the students and parents who disguised a turkey! There were some really creative ones!

I am thankful for...

Several students decorated an ear of corn with photographs or pictures they drew to share with us what they are thankful for. They worked on these projects at home with their families!