Gratitude and Thanksgiving

What is it to be thankful?


I tried to convey the answer to this deeper question this week.
Sort of tricky with such youngin's:)

Although, they had the sweetest responses.  We made a thankful tree.  First, we collected a lot of sticks from our nature hikes.  Then, we put them together and cut out leaves to hang from our "tree".  On the leaves we wrote what we were most thankful for.

Matthew said,  "the way my sister smells so sweet and she is so cute" and "for our home" and "candy"

Wesley said, "light" and "food"and "candy"

We used the tree for the center piece of our thanksgiving table.

Cranberries,
cranberry sauce,
quintessential holiday food.



on baking day we made cranberry sauce to share on Thursday.
  We also, made a loaf of cranberry bread.

On painting day we used Indian corn to create a colorful mosaic

Matthew chose just to paint the corn itself.

We also crafted a turkey using traces of their hands and feet.

They turned out pretty cute.

On Wednesday we made these hats to share on our Thanksgiving day

Grandfather turkey

Grandmother turkey

Happy 
Thanksgiving! 




Friday is chore day with our curriculum. 
We spent the day cleaning and replacing all the autumn with our winter.
Welcoming in the winter was easy with all the snow and cold temps!



I hope everyone had a good holiday.


we will see you next week.

until then...
~Blessings