This week we had fun learning about why we celebrate Thanksgiving. We talked about the letters P, and Q. The day we talked about the letter P, we also talked about the pilgrims. We talked about how they decided to leave their country for religious freedom and a better life and traveled by a boat called the Mayflower to come to the United States.
We talked about what they wore and made our own pilgrim hats.
We talked about how it took a long time for them to travel, and we also talked about wind and how the pilgrims had to depend on the wind to get where they wanted to go. They were the wind helping the boats travel.
We colored pictures of the pilgrims.
We also made pinwheels that we took outside and watched them go around and around with the wind.
We also talked about the letter Q this week. We continued to talk about coins, and talked about the dime and the
quarter.
And, we can't forget the Indians when talking about Thanksgiving. We talked about how they helped the Pilgrims and showed them how to grow food.
We made our own Indian corn.
And, to practice our letter Q, we used "cookies" (cookie crisp) and traced the letter on our cookie sheet to bake in the oven and then ate our "warm" cookies afterwards.
We also practiced our numbers with our number tree. We placed the correct amount of leaves on each branch according to the number it called for, and then once the tree was full of leaves, we pretended to be the wind in the fall and made all of the leaves fall to the ground.
And, we also made Indian vests and headbands to take home to tell our families about the Indians. We sang the Ten Little Indians song.
Happy Birthday to Paige this week!
We also learned a song this week called the Number Rock. It is one we will sing at our program and in it we count from 1-20!
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