F is for Feast!

This week at school, in preparation for next week's Thanksgiving celebration, we talked about FEASTS!

We got started by coloring some Thanksgiving placemats. I traced a proper table setting onto each child's paper in hopes that they might improve their manners while coloring. I'm not sure if my scheme worked!

Then we moved on to circle time, where we talked about Christ feeding the 5,000...feasting on fishes and loaves.

We also learned this cute poem by Ivy O. Eastwick:

Thanksgiving

Thank you

for allmy hands can hold-

apples red,

and melons gold,

yellow corn

both ripe and sweet,

peas and beans

so good to eat!

For show-and-tell we talked about our favorite foods. I think Goldfish crackers were mentioned at least twice!

Throughout circle time the children were treated to spontaneous visits from Owen. They were all very generous and shared their carpet squares. Thanks, Joseph and Delainey!

Next we had singing time were we danced to a few Thanksgiving songs (love Tom Chapin's "Thanksgiving!) This is my favorite picture I took all day...the kids were singing "Over the River" while pretending to ride in the sleigh to Grandmother's house. Delainey drove...and the boys were happy passengers!

We then read a few Thanksgiving books and talked about CORNICOPIAS!

We headed back to the table and colored, cut out, and assembled our very own horns-of-plenty!

During snack time the kids made sugar cone cornicopias by filling ice cream cones with rainbow goldfish crackers (hooray!) and fruit-shaped fruit snacks. Yummy and very healthy (wink, wink.)

Sadly, that is where my picture-taking ended for the day! After a late snack time, we finished our day by playing a fun counting game with Thanksgiving foods and practicing our handwriting.

We had fun! Can't wait to see you at our big FEAST next week!