Thanksgiving Feast

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving feast in our room on Friday.

Xander's mom made us all yummy, yummy
Thanksgiving turkey cake pops!

Ruel, his dad, and brother Cade

Tinija, her mom and sister

Part of the Spunky Monkey Family:
Sabrina, Maria, and Jaxon

Robert, Zuleydi, thier mom and sister

Maddie and her dad

More Spunky Monkey Family Members:
Wesley and Kevin

Nicole, her mom and sister

Gordon, his mom and grandmother

Nathaniel and Kristi

Bryson and his mom

Madison, her mom, grandmother and grandfather

We had lots of family come and feast with us. 

 I didn't get a chance to take Xander and his dad's picture.

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Feast with our Friends and Family

We had a yummy spread for our Thanksgiving Feast. The Spunky Monkeys want to thank all the families that provided the food for our feast.

Look at all that food. We had more than enough food for all of us.

Look at our beautiful decorations.
As we learned about Fall, we made several items decorating the table.
During our unit on pumpkins, we made pumpkins out of pantyhose. Yes, I said pantyhose!
We also made gorgeous clay leaf bowls. And of course, we used our Thanksgiving Story Chains.

Here's a better look at the decorations.
Daelan said the blessing and then we ate!
We had lots of family members come and share in our feast.

Isabella and her brother, Logan and mom.

Cooper and his dad.

Mitchell and his dad.

Mrs. R, our principal, came and visited too.

Meryck and his sister, Cecilia and his dad.
Meryck's dad is in the military and we are sooo thankful for him and all he does to protect us!

Luc with his mom, dad, and sister Vada.

Bradley with his dad. Bradley's mom came too but Mrs. Martin didn't get a picture of her with Bradley.

Bella with her mom and dad. Bella is too cool!

The Story of Thanksgiving

We have been using a large story chain to help us remember the story of Thanksgiving.
So, on the last day we made one of our own.

The first chain is brown for the Pilgrims not being allowed to worship God in their own way, so they leave England. The next link is white for the sails on the Mayflower, the ship they sailed on.
The next three are blue for the long journey over the ocean to the New World.

The sailors on the Mayflower saw land, so we added a green link.
Once the Pilgrims reached the New World, they had a long cold winter,
next we added three white links.

After the long cold winter, spring finally arrived. A green link is next.
During the spring, the Pilgrims met the Native Americans. The Native Americans helped them learn how to live off the new land. A tan colored link is added for the Native Americans.

That fall, the harvest was plentiful. The Pilgrims wanted to have a Thanksgiving Feast with their new friends. We add a brown for turkey, orange for pumpkins,
red for cranberries, and yellow for corn.

Mitchell working on his story chain.

Mrs. Smith is almost finished helping us with our story chains.

We review the story after we finish our chains.

Josie showing off her story chain.

Squanto's Corn

We have been learning about the Native Americans and the Pilgrims.
We read about Squanto and how he helped the Pilgrims plant corn.

Our Funky Food was making our own Sqanto's Corn.

First we made the soil. Dustin is pouring his soil out.

Isabella is adding the corn seed in her soil.

Arianah then added the famous fish.

Henry is covering the fish and corn seed with the soil.

Now we are all ready to eat.
Dustin, Catherine, Bella, Meryck, and Henry

Arianah, Aubrey, Jonathan, Daelin, and Bradley

Vayla, Cooper, Mitchell, and K.J.

Isabella, Desiray, Miguel, and Juana