Thanksgiving

We spent the last two weeks at preschool getting ready for Thanksgiving!  We learned about turkeys through watching videos, singing songs, reading books, reciting fingerplays, and making them with our hands!  We discussed how Thanksgiving is a time we celebrate all the things we love and one way we do that is to make special food and eat it with people we care about.  So...the best way for preschoolers to learn is through experiencing it...we did a lot of cooking and eating with our new friends....just like the pilgrims and native americans did!!  We also had lots of fun making Thanksgiving artwork!

We baked a pumpkin at school and used it to make pumpkin break.  

We painted our hands to make turkeys.  We wrote a class story about turkeys that we included at the bottom of our art work!

The kids helped mix and stir...we called it "friendship pumpkin break" because we all helped make it!

Our homemade pumpkin bread and butter.  the kids loved it so much we had it two days in a row for snack!!

Pumpkin bread tastes better with butter on it!  We made some using whipping cream and a jar.  We passed it around and shook very hard and eventually we had butter!

Our pumpkin bread before cooking...the kids loved putting in the chocolate chips!! 

We also had fun making cranberry sauce.  We loved watching and hearing the cranberries pop while they cooked!

We had fun corn painting.  We used indian corn, brushed different color paint on it and rolled it around...so much fun...messy too!

Our finished indian corn projects!

We always have fun using our classroom materials.  We loved making a giant floor puzzle and building towers with blocks.

Roman brought in snack...thanks Roman...yum!