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Thanksgiving
By Pauline

We do a faux trip by sailing from england by way of the book ...If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern. We will start on Monday by doing a KWL on the first Thanksgiving and pack our suitecases for our trip.
The book takes several days to read and provides lots of good info. When we "arrive" to america, we set up some pilgrim homes (by way of milk cartons, brown construction paper and shredded wheat) and wetus. We construct roads and stores as we learn about the pilgrims in our book. The following week we will have a pilgrim boy and pilgrim girl day using books Samuel Eatons Day by Kate

Waters and Sarah Mortons Day by Kate Waters also. Another good book is On the Mayflower by kate waters. We also use a book called Giving Thanks The 1621 Harvest Feast by you guesssed it, Kate Waters.

We have a large feast two days before thanksgiving and half the children represent Native Americans and half represent the Pilgrims. Our art teacher also gets natural things (coffee grounds, green veggies cranberries, etc) and the "paint" using those ingredients for their placemat for the feast (on white clothe)

That is a pretty general summary of what we do, let me know if you need more explanation. Good luck!!