December 3

Last week and the week before, we talked a lot about families, being thankful, and the first Thanksgiving.  I hope you had a chance to take a look at the Thanksgiving book your child brought home!  On Wednesday at play time, we talked about what it would be like to be Pilgrims with no electricity and few toys.  The class spent play time pretending to be pilgrims.  We played in the dark with wooden toys.  They made a "fire" to cook their food, and they pretended to go hunting for food to bring back for everyone to share.  our class continues to enjoy playing "pilgrims" this week too!

Here are a few pictures from our Thanksgiving unit:

Here are some Pilgrims playing in the dark with wooden blocks and small stones.

This was a little project that Kaitlyn made for me during our Pilgrim play time.  She didn't think they had glue, so she did not glue the pieces together!!!  How cool!

This is our Thankful Turkey...filled with feathers of all the things that our class is thankful for - friends, family, toys, food, and more!

               This is a chart we made about all the different things that families do together.

This is a poster we made about what a family is made of!