Tuesday, November 11th

Today we learned about the letter I and it’s sound. We also reviewed all the letters we have learned so far (A-H). The kids also completed a writing worksheet on the letter I.

We started talking about Thanksgiving. I asked the kids what they do on Thanksgiving and these are their replies:
Tyler - “Eat squash.”
Gavin – “Eat chicken that has a stick on the bottom of it.”
Renée – “I don’t squish pumpkins.”
Sydney – “Passes out cards and go to other peoples houses to give them princess cards.”
Cameron – “Puts ears and mouth on a pumpkin.”

I think some of them are getting the holidays confused. As I was writing their responses, I realized that most of them don’t remember Thanksgiving from last year. We will keep working on it. I did tell them about the Pilgrims, Indians, all the food that they grew, and the feast that they had to celebrate.

We sang “Oats, Peas, Beans” and learned to clap and pat our legs to the rhythm. They then added feathers to their turkey on the worksheet “Turkey Feathers.”

They also made Fluffy Turkeys with napkins and a wooden stick. They turned out really cute.

After snack we sang “Over the River” and used baby food jars filled with buttons as shakers. They liked them so much we sang the song twice.

We then built log cabins out the popsicle sticks. They got to cut for the craft and everyone’s cutting skills have improved.

We finished the day by playing chair ball, which involved rolling a ball through the legs of a chair and yelling, “Chair Ball” when someone got it through.