Happy Week before Thanksgiving!
We have a fun week planned as we
learn about the Pilgrims, the Native Americans, and the very first
Thanksgiving. Our week will culminate
with our version of a “Thanksgiving Feast”. We’ll be making turkey/vegetable soup for lunch on Friday! I’ll bring a crock pot with precooked ground
turkey. Each student will be assigned
something to add to our soup or a side item.
Hopefully, all the students will partake of our dinner and you won’t
need to send a lunch on Friday. I guess
the worst that can happen is that you have to stop by Chick-fil-a on the way
home from school if your child didn’t eat!
Anyway, see the list at the bottom of this page for food assignments. Please
note that that I’m asking for the smallest possible cans of the vegetables so
we can fit it all in one crock pot. This dinner is just for the students and
teachers this time.
During this season of
thankfulness, I thought it would be great to have the students participate in a
project to help others. I am asking that each student, if possible,
bring in an item to contribute to Operation Christmas Child. We will plan to fill two shoe boxes by the
end of the week (one for a boy and one for a girl). For more information about this project
and a list of gift ideas please visit www.samaritanspurse.org/occ .
Thanksgiving Soup
Abbie - small can of shoe peg corn
Ansley and Austin – 2 15
oz. cans of chicken broth
Brayden - dessert
Cole – small can of black-eyed
peas
Gracie – small can of carrots
Jacob - cornbread
Jonah – grapes or other fruit
Lexie – can of baby lima beans
Malia – one bag or box of small pasta
(any shape)
Homework:
· Nightly reading (15-20 mins.) Include A Beka readers and classroom books that come home during the week and record in Reading Log.
· Sight word practice (see the 3 lists in your child’s Frog Notebook)
· Attached worksheets (due Friday)
· “Feast Donation” (due Thursday)
· Operation Christmas Child donation (due Friday)
· Show and Tell (free choice)
· Practice“Thank You” blessing and “The Turkey Dance” We’ll be practicing these a lot at school this week, but I thought you guys might want to have your child show them to you toward the end of the week!
· We’re also looking for empty baby food jars with lids for a project this week. I need 7 more of the regular size bottles. If you have any to spare, send them our way! Thanks.
(sung to Turkey in the Straw)
Oh, you turkey to
the left (two steps to the left)
And you turkey to the right (two steps to the right)
Then you heel and toe (do motion with foot)
And you scratch with all your might. (scratch with foot)
Now you flap your turkey wings (put thumbs in armpits and flap)
While your head goes bobble,bobble. (wobble head)
Turn around and then you say, (turn around)
“Gobble, gobble, gobble!”
And you turkey to the right (two steps to the right)
Then you heel and toe (do motion with foot)
And you scratch with all your might. (scratch with foot)
Now you flap your turkey wings (put thumbs in armpits and flap)
While your head goes bobble,bobble. (wobble head)
Turn around and then you say, (turn around)
“Gobble, gobble, gobble!”
Thank You
Thank You, for the
earth and sky,
Thank You, for the
birds that fly,
Thank You for the
food we grow,
Thank You for the
streams that flow.
Thank You, Thank
You, this we say:
Thanks for all we
have today!
