As we approach Thanksgiving, I sit and reflect on what I am thankful for. I wanted to take a moment and share with you one of the things I am most thankful for. The 38 beautiful children that I am blessed to spend 5 days a week with and you. You send your children to school and trust me with their safety, education, and social/emotional well-being. You trust that I will show them how to have fun while learning and to love learning. For that, I am forever grateful and thankful. Thank you for being your child's biggest advocate and supporter, thank you for partnering with me to make the best kindergarten experience for your child, and thank you for trusting me. I wake up each weekday and look forward to my day. I look forward to seeing 38 beautiful smiles and seeing the "I got it!/I did it!" looks that they get when they get or accomplish something. I hope that you enjoy this Thanksgiving break with your loved ones and stay safe. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart.
Last week we talked about what what we already know about Thanksgiving. We then read
Thanksgiving Is by Gail Gibbons. We added what we learned to our chart of what we already knew. We then made a book called The First Thanksgiving that came home yesterday. In our book we retold the First Thanksgiving story and illustrated our book. Students enjoyed learning the why behind Thanksgiving!
We also read
Turkey Trouble and shared the disguised turkeys that have been turned in so far. Students then made their own turkey hats! Enjoy the photos and in the words of the students, "gobble, gobble!"
