Thankful for Thanksgiving

This week we have been learning about fiction and non fiction books. We were looking at different Thanksgiving books to help us with our learning. 

We read several Thanksgiving non-fiction books and we were learning lots of true facts about Thanksgiving. Here are some of the facts we learned:

* That is happens on the second Monday of October. (Emerson)

* You show love and care on the second Monday. (Audrey)

* I learned on the second Monday there is Thanksgiving days. (Bryson)

* That we spend time with family. (Blane)

* On the second Monday you have to be kind because its a special day. (Reiner)

* It is a time to celebrate for all the food that's harvest. (Madelyn)

* You celebrate with your family. (Sophia)

* I never knew that Thanksgiving wasn't always a holiday in October. (Tanner)

* Thanksgiving was started 500 years and I didn't know that. (Jacob)

* We eat pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. (Evelynn)

* You use a cornucopia for foods that been harvested. (Ryker)

* I am thankful for the watermelon. (Victoria)

We also read many Thanksgiving fiction stories this week and are learning the parts of the story, called the story elements. One story, we read was The Great Turkey Race. 

After we read this silly story, we talked about the story elements and recorded them together on our Thanksgiving reading response paper.

We did some art this week of a turkey after we read our story! We were focusing on following orally instructions as we listened to 'How to Draw a Thanksgiving Turkey'. Here are some of our finished art pieces. They have also been posted to our All About Me Digital Portfolios. 

Also this week, our Shared Reading was a poem for Thanksgiving. We are becoming fluent and expressive readers. This weekend, for their Home Activity, students will be filling in what they are thankful for to make their own little Thanksgiving poem.

Lots of Thanksgiving themed activities this week and more to come next week after we have celebrated this weekend! 

 

We want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!!