I is for Indian and T is for Thanksgiving

In my curriculum the "holiday" lesson was I for Indian but alot of the lesson revolved around thanksgiving so I spilt the lesson into two weeks and supplimented the Indian lesson a little. We also used this week as a review and focus on prewriting skills as I was noticing that Princess #2's "lines" and "circles" were not as correct as they should be...

Princess # making an Indian vest out of a paper bag (hard to find nowadays)

Courtney in her vest and hat
We learned about how Indians used to paint pictures to "write" their stories, so we created a picture story of a girl going to her house to eat food (corn on the cob to be specific)

Then for the second week we focused on the letter T for turkey or thanksgiving... we made turkeys and pasted the number of feathers on the turkey corresponding with the written number

We drew a handprint turkey and sprinkled different spices (curry, poultry seasoning, sage, cayenne pepper, black pepper, and curry) on the fingers and smelled them to find out how they smelled

We made handprint turkeys with different colors of paint as placemats

We used our sorting animals to practice the grouping of animals with corresponding written numbers (i.e. placing three animals in a group and then placing the "3" flashcard with that group)

Finally our snack was an apple turkey we made with pretzel sticks and marshmallows

And folks that is all the school lessons we will be doing until the first of the year... have a happy holidays!!