Welcome, November!

This month the children will develop awareness of the colors, sights, sounds, tastes, seasonal changes and events that characterize the month of November. November brings the excitement of the start of the holiday season to our Pre-K class. We will be counting our blessings as we focus and learn about turkeys, family traditions, Pilgrims, Native Americans and the First Thanksgiving. I will share with the girls a favorite Thanksgiving story called Thank You, Thanksgiving by David Milgrim. After reading this exuberant Thanksgiving story about a little girl who is thankful for all the familiar things she loves, there will be no doubt left about how much there is to be thankful for. Each student will create her own turkey by choosing the correct amount of feathers that corresponded with the number of letters in her first name. Students will write one letter of their name on each colorful feather and something they are thankful for, the little things that make a big difference in our lives- books, crayons, paper, pancakes and one we are all thankful for, Saturdays! The girls will travel back into time to learn about the First Thanksgiving and compare it to how we celebrate Thanksgiving today. We will discuss what the Pilgrim children’s jobs and responsibilities were such as churning butter. The girls will have their own experience doing this by turning heavy cream into butter by shaking it and watching it change right before our very eyes.