November SWAP

in Miss Brittany's room, the students discussed what they thought being thankful meant. They read the book Thanksgiving Day Thanks and learned that being thankful meant that we were glad to have something. They had three circles and decided what they are thankful for and drew them in the circles. Then they glued the circles to a table runner. After that, they decorated a table runner by drawing things that meant something to them.

"Thanksgiving Day Thanks tells the story of Sam trying to figure out what he's thankful for.Sam also works on a special project to share at the Thanksgiving feast—his own version of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!"

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In Ms. Kim’s room for SWAP, they read The Plump and Perky Turkey. Then, they traced their hands and put feathers on the handprint to make turkey tails and made the turkey’s head and face. They were making the pieces to go on our pine cone turkeys. After that, they designed their very own teepees because they learned about the types of houses Indians lived in long ago. When they were done, they all gathered around and did “The Turkey Pokey”.

In Miss Brooke's room, the students discussed that Thanksgiving was during the season of Fall. During fall, leaves turn different, beautiful colors. These colors are used to decorate around Thanksgiving and they got to make their very own trees to decorate our Thanksgiving tables. While they took turns making their Thanksgiving trees, the other students watched Charlie Brown The Mayflower Voyagers.

We began our rotation by listening to a brief description of the first Thanksgiving and learned that this Thanksgiving will be the 392nd Thanksgiving since the very first one in 1621. We talked about foods that were eaten at the first Thanksgiving and the students were shown a picture of Indian corn and asked if they knew what it was. We talked about the colors we saw in the picture and how those colors might remind us of fall. Our friend, Grayson, brought in a box of dried corn stalks and the students got to touch and feel the stalks. Then we made our very own Indian corn using bubble wrap, paint, and real corn husks!