Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
I am so thankful to have such a wonderful class this year! It was wonderful getting to be a silly turkey with them. During the past two weeks we indulged in many thanksgiving themed activities.
First, our school made a thankful turkey. Every student picked one to two things that they were thankful for and wrote them on a feather then decorated it. We put them all together on our Mendon Turkey! We really are thankful for a lot!!!
Next, we decorated our own personal turkeys with up to six feathers listing things that we were thankful for. This was a super easy project to get ready and the students enjoyed making their unique turkey. All it took was some brown paper and feathers outlined on white. The students did the rest! We talked as a class about what we were thankful for and then wrote the words on the turkey feathers all by ourselves!!!!!
After learning all week about the pilgrims and the indians we got to make our own hats. No one could choose who they wanted to be so we decided why not be both?! First we cut and glued together our pilgrim hats.
Next, we decorated indian feathers and glued them on to make a headdress!
The final product would make any indian proud!
We had some extra turkey fun working on our color words!
WOW we were able to put our turkey feathers in order from 1-20!
We finished off the day by singing our holiday songs. Their favorite being Turkey Time! Here are the links just incase you would like to torture, I mean enjoy, yourself at home too!!!
Turkey Time Song! - Annoying but catchy!
Albuquerque Turkey
At the end of the day we pushed our desks together and had a Thankful Snack time! We went around the circle and talked about what we were thankful for. Here were two student's responses.
At the end of the day we pushed our desks together and had a Thankful Snack time! We went around the circle and talked about what we were thankful for. Here were two student's responses.
P.S.
We will be having an Ugly Sweater contest. Students and parents are allowed to bring in money and vote for their favorite ugly sweater. The top three teachers who get the most money in the jar will have to kiss a goat during the Christmas Show. Here is a sneak peek at my ugly sweater.. funny because most of the kids thought it was beautiful with the fur and gems. Maybe in the 80's! Although this was a one time thing I will be dressing in Christmas sweaters all December long to try to earn some votes from the student body!
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