Thanksgiving & Turkeys

We did Thanksgiving for 2 weeks mixing in the Turkeys with a little Pilgrims and History lessons

Letters  Mm  Nn
Number 12
Verses Let us not love in word but in deeds and in truth. 1 John 3:18
No one can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24
I'm not sure how I started with Mm, but that's what I had printed. ??  I haven't been going in the order (1+1+1=1) suggests, but this wasn't what I thought I had planned. :))  Anyways, M and N back to back worked out fine, a little confusing at times. :)

Books we used:

Our favorite book was the one we made together.  I got the idea from "Blue's Clue's back in the day,  Everyone in the family makes a page (we made 2 each and included Nanny too) "Mama's thankful for.... Daddy's thankful for...."  I put it together simply with a ring.  No picture sorry, it got left at Nanny's house.

Highlights from our weeks:

There were several Thanksgiving tot packs.  I just printed 1 or 2 sheets from a couple for our week.  1+1+1=1 and over the big moon.com

Roll a Felt Turkey- "Let's play again"

sorting pasta, then glueing pasta for turkey feathers.

Finished product!

I left the marker on the table, so L used it to write! "I write, I write yellow."

We actually made these in SS, but it was too cute not to share.

We played the "Thankful game" almost everytime we got in the car for the last 3 weeks.  I said something I was thankful for and then GB, then L.  continues.  Lots of funny things and some really great things too.  I was very impressed and proud of some of the things GB came up with.  L was mostly thankful for the vehicles he saw or repeated one of us.  Cute stuff!

Thanksgiving Cards for Nanny and Papas

This is the best and most Gracie has colored without scribbling!! (I did the red)

Loves those counting games

Building with foam blocks! 

Notice GB's buildings are matching colors. 

Luke is in the far corner of the picture and he already claimed it as a train house

 (2 trains on top). :)

Turkey sandwich

Turkey snack- looks a little more like a spider (good thing my littles thought it was great)

Oh my!  What to say about this poor guy!  I had to post to show sometimes you just make due! ;)  After 2 days of turkey lunch and snack, they asked for a "turkey". 

This is all the pictures I have from 2 weeks.  We had a great Thanksgiving and learned a lot, played a lot of Pretend Thanksgivings and made mayflower voyages. :)   We moved on to our Christmas celebration and will continue through the whole month of Dec.  I'll probably post all together since we are already finished with week 1 and I took 2 pictures of "school stuff". :))

There was an Old Lady who Swallowed...

A Fly  and A Pie!!
We used both these books this week.  Starting with the traditional one for a couple days, then did the Pie for the last couple days.  I thought the Pie book would lead us right into our Thanksgiving theme!  Along with our books we did lots of repetition and sequencing this week.

Letter: Yy
Color:  White
Number:  11
Verse:  You are my friend if you do what I command of you.   Lots of good discuss with this verse and others this week, like "Honor your Father and Mother" is what God commands you. :))) 

Books we used: 

Highlights:

Magnet retelling

more magnets (we did a lot with magnets this week) Number correspondence

Well, Tuesday we did nothing "themed" so I took a picture of the trays for the day.  Hoping to refinish an old bookshelf and get new trays after Christmas.

This is the best and longest she has laced these things! Yay GB!

Acting out the story!  It's okay to laugh at our old lady! ;)) plastic jar,yard,felt and my apron!  It was great fun and you would be amazed at all the stuff that lady ate! ;)

About to eat a slinky dog. :)

lacing foam beads, and of course making it a pattern

Luke chose all the round ones. Hard at work!

This was her favorite and we repeated often and with the "pie" book pictures

Magnet pictures-find the letter it starts with, then write the letter on her glitter bag.

something new- (1+1+1=1) Letter mazes with magnet pompoms.  We printed several letters and it kept her busy for awhile!

Retelling cards and used here for beginning sounds

printable from..? Pinterest :)

Finally, making mini Pumpkin pies

Great way to share your pies; Minis

We used white bread sandwich and moz cheese with peeled apples for our white lunch.  We called our sweet potatos - Yams. :) Fun lunches were kinda boring this week, except for the reading and retelling of one of these books everytime we sat down at the table.  I introduced the book while they were eating on Monday.

Autumn or Fall Fun

I love Fall! Actually, I like all seasons except Winter!

Letter: Vv /v/  GB makes the /p/ and /f/ sounds instead of /v/.
Shape: triangle
Color: brown
Number:10
RRS Verse: Verly, Verly, I say to you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.  John 6:47

I decided to skip the concept/goal part- I know what our goals are and well, anyone that reads this probably doesn't care about that part! ;)

Books we used:

Highlights from our Fall Fun Week:

Bag of fake leaves....so many uses!  Sort

patterns, counting, we even played a few games of "find the hidden leaf" and "follow the leaf trail".

Small, medium, large with counting

abc leaves, she put them in order (with a little help), sang the abcs, I would say a letter she would find it and say the sound, she spelled her name and Luk (only 1 e)! :)

and of course she noticed the pattern! :)

counting owls

owl number correspondence/counting

acorn memory with shapes

picture match-this was really for L

Fall color painting with q-tips

hand-fingertip Fall trees

letter puzzles

cooking- we have been doing a lot of baking this week.

shape scarecrows- L's is on orange, GB's on Red

writing practice and dotting

scarecrow puzzle by numbers and counting cards.

These 2 were very popular this week.

Printables from homeschool creations

beginning letter sounds.  This is our first time with these and she did great.  I didn't have to tell her any of them.  Just that the apples were in a bushel-she couldn't find an A. :)

She loves those clips! They even make good hair accessories. :)  I had them in my teaching stuff (staples), but never used them until 2 weeks ago.

Nature Walk

all their collection

Leaf rubbings- Maybe this is better with older kids, we really weren't seeing much of the leaves after she colored over.  I held her hand on the orange one you can see. :)

Leaf sandwiches on festive plates.  That's pretty much a summary of our festive food, other than grilled cheeses shaped like acorns and using our pumpkin cups and Fall plates. Lots of leave and acorn shaped snacks too.  Cheese shaped leaves and crackers were the favorite.

Fun in the Fall leaves. 



I'm behind a week, so hopefully I'll find some time to share.  "There was an Old Lady" coming soon. :)