Soldiers, Pilgrims, and Indians

It has been awhile since the last post.  We celebrated Veteran's Day by making TLC soldiers.  They decorated our hallway for the week before Veteran's Day.  Thank you to all the military who keep us safe and guard our freedom!

We are in the process of completing a two week unit on Thanksgiving.  We have spent a lot of time reading and talking about how things are "now" compared to how they were "long ago".  We made TLC Pilgrim portraits and also Indians.  We read many books about the Thanksgiving story and even acted out a sound story of the first Thanksgiving.

The children made paper plate Pilgrims that are sailing on the Mayflower on our bulletin board.

The children wrote and illustrated stories about what they are thankful for.  They also colored and cut out turkeys and made signs for the turkeys to hold recommending that we eat something besides turkey.  Those Chick-fil-A cows have some competition now!

Our class is going to be participating in a Christmas card exchange with 30 other classes from across the USA and Canada.  We had a fun time trying to get a good class photo for our card.  Of course when you take a serious photo, the children always want to make a silly one.  Here is one of our silly ones!

We will let you know how the Christmas card exchange goes.  We will be posting our cards on the bulletin board with a map.  Have a great Thanksgiving!