Sweet Kindergarten: A week and a half of Thanksgiving

Sunday, November 27, 2011

A week and a half of Thanksgiving

We had a total of 7 days to cover Thanksgiving once we were done with Veterans Day. That's not a whole lot of time to cover everything and make sure our little kinders really understand, but we did the best we could!

We started by learning to retell the Thanksgiving story with some picture clues.

Once the kids were good at retelling they made bead bracelets to assist with their storytelling. Each bead stands for an element in the Thanksgiving story.

We made these cute books with pictures to help us tell the story of Thanksgiving:

I forgot to take a picture of the front of the book, but it was a handprint turkey.

We learned all about Pilgrims and how their lives were different from ours.

We learned about Native Americans and their customs, Made headbands and money pouches (complete with seashells to represent early money)

We made Squanto's snack (oreos crushed to represent dirt, goldfish and candy corn to represent corn and fish) You plant and then eat! Then we sequenced the order of events to make and eat the snack and wrote out the steps in order.

We created a pie graph showing how many of us like to eat turkey and how many don't. The kids colored a coin with either "yes" or "no" and then we put them in a circle and drew lines between the two groups. The kids had fun coloring in the graph then we added it to a big turkey on our bulletin board. After we did a class survey and the kids made their own pie charts.