Thanksgiving

This week we read several great Thanksgiving books.  Biscuit is Thankful is a short book about Biscuit the dog and all the things he is thankful for.  Strega Nona's Harvest is a great gardening story, and Big Anthony gets up to his usual trouble - this time helping grow enough vegetables to feed the town.  This is the Turkey builds a great Thanksgiving dinner around the turkey, and then deals with the disappointment as the turkey is ruined.  A Thanksgiving Wish is a little lengthy and may bring up tears as it tells of Thanksgiving traditions and the first Thanksgiving without grandma.  Gobble Gobble follows a group of wild turkeys living in a girl's yard.  It ends with some fun tie-in activity suggestions.  Over the River and Through the Woods is a modern take on the old song, where family members from around the country travel to spend Thanksgiving with their grandparents and all end up in a sleigh.

We started the week exploring feathers.  Friends came over and we looked at feathers in a microscope and under magnifying glasses.  Then we used the feathers to create paintings and had the option to create a brown handprint and add some colorful feathers to the fingers to create a turkey.  Genevieve wasn't interested but some of her friends made them and Tobias made one.  Genevieve was busy painting with the feather.


Wednesday we talked more about what we are thankful for and wrote them on construction paper slips.  We used the slips to make a chain, and per Genevieve's request, a Thanksgiving telescope.  She drew a picture of family.  Genevieve has also been busy helping us prepare food for Thanksgiving.

We've been watching a lot of the 'pumpkin' Curious George.  We also had some fun with animals this week.  We had a possum in our yard the other night which was interesting, although the cat hated it.  We went to the zoo and Fairytale Town to play as well.