Honestly, Thanksgiving is hard for me to teach. Between my decade away from America, my emotional struggle with the mistreatment of the natives, and the meaning of secular holidays through a Jewish lens, Thanksgiving is not something I am passionate about.
But the children should know something about the upcoming long weekend.
I summarized the [false] Thanksgiving story of the friendship between the Pilgrims and Indians and how they celebrated with yummy food, especially turkey.
The project was connected to our on-going study of numeracy, number recognition, and sequencing.
They colored a turkey that had numbers on each feather.
After cutting out the turkeys, the children received pre-cut paper feathers with numbers on them. The children then attempted (or didn't) to glue the numbers onto the corresponding spot on the turkey. I stapled the turkeys onto cups so they could stand.
It is always fascinating to see the differences in effort, creativity, and ability.
Gobble Gobble!
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