Thanksgiving

We had such a great week learning all about The First Thanksgiving!  We read many books about The First Thanksgiving and applied our knowledge into hands-on learning projects.  Here are some snapshots of what we created.  I used a variety of sources to put this project together.  The children were excited to take these home today to share with their families over Thanksgiving Break!

Here are some of the books we read together this week!

   

The Cover

  

Pocket 1 - The Pilgrims prepare for their journey

 

Trunk and Map

Pocket 2 - The Mayflower

Pocket 3 - The Pilgrims first year

 

 

  

Pocket 4 - Squanto and how he helped the Pilgrims

Pocket 5 - The First Thanksgiving

 

Hungry Hoppers - Grasshoppers

Our Imagine It! story this week was called "Hungry Hoppers."  We learned all kinds of interesting facts about grasshoppers.  My students created this writing project to help them remember some of the facts we read about.  Then we made a clothes pin grasshopper.

Scarecrow for Hire!

We had a lot of fun this week reading stories about Scarecrows, writing letters to the farmer, and creating our Scarecrows and crows.  The students had to come up with a plan to help the farmer get rid of his pesky crows that keep eating his crops.  Some students took it one step further and wrote back to the Scarecrows form the farmers point of view telling them why he hired them.

  

We built schema and brainstormed our ideas on this tree map.