Maple Leaf Preschool: Thanksgiving Fun

We had a lot of fun this week preparing for Thanksgiving! We learned how to trace our hand (or have someone trace it for us!) and turn it into a turkey! We sponge painted on canvas and made a background for our peanut shaped turkeys! We read a lot of books about Thanksgiving including Bear Says Thanks, I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, Thanks For Thanksgiving, Ten Fat Turkeys, Corduroy's Thanksgiving, and What Is Thanksgiving?

We sang the song Thanks A Lot while Mrs. Gould played the guitar. We also watched a video of it...then we made up our own words to the song. I've included a link to the Raffi song and one of the stories we heard this week. (Maybe your child wants to watch the videos again and sing the song for you at home!!)

Some of the things the kids said they were thankful for included: brothers, sisters, mommies, daddies, family, giraffes, unicorns, grapes, juice, butterflies, the sun,the moon, the stars, riding bikes, playing outside, hopscotch and flowers.

We talked about the food we like to eat on Thanksgiving and then made "friendship butter" out of cream. We poured the heavy whipping cream into two jars and passed them around in a circle, shaking the jar when it was our turn. We also rolled the jar back and forth to each other on the floor. After about 5 minutes it had turned into butter...so cool. We dipped pretzels in our homemade butter as part of our snack. Delicious!!

Thanks for Thanksgiving read aloud

Thanks A Lot song by Raffi