Thanksgiving

We want to know
-want to know why Thanksgiving is so special
-why does everyone race races?
-why does everyone visit their families

What we did
-song - "A Song of Thanks" LDS Children's Songbook http://lds.org/churchmusic/detailmusicPlayer/index.html?searchlanguage=1&searchcollection=2&searchseqstart=20&searchsubseqstart=a&searchseqend=20&searchsubseqend=a
-poem - "The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven" Jack Prelutsky (repeat from oven week)

Turkeys


We made turkeys. The feathers, body, and parts are below. We used a pine-cone for the back and hot glued the body on. The feathers stayed by just putting sliding them between the pine-cone sections.

Turkey Body and Parts (makes 2)



Turkey Feathers (for 2)



Math and Writing
Ezra wrote up surveys asking people to write 10 things they were thankful for. He wrote: Please write 10 things, then numbered each paper 1-10. Everyone in the family (except Sam) filled one out. We gathered our data and wrote down the top five things. Ezra made a bar graph to chart it.
Top Five: family, gospel, home, friends, and food

-made a pumpkin pie

What we learned
Story for Family Home Evening
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/thanksgiving/short-stories/the-first-thanksgiving.html
1. people who lived in England were unhappy because their king was mean. He didn't let them to pray to God. They decided to move to Holland, but they were very poor and their kids didn't want to pray anymore, so they built two ships. One was not strong enough, so they left it and only sailed on the Mayflower.
2. They had to go all the way across the ocean and they got really sick. After two months they landed at Plymouth Rock. They started building their first house on Christmas day. It was cold and they didn't have much. The Indians came and helped them. In the spring the Indians helped them plant their crops.
3. They had a great harvest that fall with plenty of food to last through the winter. They decided to thank God for all of these things. Their party lasted three days. They ate wild turkey, pig, fish, corn, bread, cakes. They had races and played with the kids. Every year they celebrated Thanksgiving.
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFDSobNnfQs