Thanksgiving Projects

     The kids have worked very hard on various projects related to thanksgiving over the past couple of weeks and our classroom reflects their hard work.  From pilgrims and Indians to turkeys, the students have learned a lot. 

     Students disguised turkeys in order to protect them from becoming Thanksgiving dinner and I don't believe these turkeys can be recognized as turkeys at all.

     The students also learned about the Pilgrims and Wamponoag tribe.  We discussed things that Pilgrim boys and girls would do and what boys and girls of the Wamponoag tribe would do.  Students then chose which one they would have liked to have been and wrote something they would have done if they were that person.  They then made either a pilgrim or Indian to go along with their writing.

     We listened to the story "The Great Turkey Race" and then talked about what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.  The students made turkeys to match the ones in the story and then wrote what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.  These turned out great.

     Students have also worked on putting sentences together that tell the story of the First Thanksgiving.  Once the sentences were together in the correct order, they then had to draw pictures to match the sentences.  The final product is the story of the Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving.