Thanksgiving

All the Little Turkeys (Sung To: Shortnin' Bread)
See all the turkeys up in the tree,
All the little turkeys try to hide from me.
All the little turkeys go gobble, gobble,
All the little turkeys go just like this
All the little turkeys go wobble, wobble,
All the little turkeys go just like this..

Thanksgiving (Sung To: Where is Thumbkin)
Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving
Here it comes, here it comes.
Turkey on the table, turkey on the table.
Mmm-good, mmm-good.
Cornbread muffins, chestnut stuffing,
Pumpkin pie, ten feet high.
We were so much thinner,
before we came to dinner.
Me-oh-my, me-oh-my!

Today we played with the color-match turkey bulletin board, made cornbread, sang about Thanksgiving, and read pages 104-109 in What Your Preschooler Needs to Know, which cover the Piligrims and the First Thanksgiving.  We also read Goldilocks and the three bears and had plenty of good run around time outside, where the kids gassed up all the vehicles and picked berries for the deer to eat.

We continued to reinforce hand washing and using full sentences for requests (Please, may I... instead of CHEESE! .... please.) as well as nice table manners.

Bulletin board was done using construction paper.  Feathers were cut on the diagonal of a single sheet of each color, and taper to be stapled behind the turkey body.  The Turkey body is two pieces: One that's a large oval slightly flattened on the bottom and one that looks like a bowling pin.  The beak and wattle are small pieces of paper and the eyes are black crayon.  Staple the bottom of the body first and then arrange the feathers behind it.  Velcro was stapled to the middle of each feather to allow sticking the laminated photos (one per child) on each color.