IJP Prepares for Our Grandparents/Special Persons day Thanksgiving Feast!

      Learning about Thanksgiving involves quite a few hands-on activities.  Kitah Gimmel prepared traditional cornbread.  We also used fall items to create Thanksgiving decorations  We listened to a fun book, too,  about the Thanksgiving story, and we learned two new songs. 

    We prepare cornbread.  (Above, Maddy and Annika pour cornmeal into a bowl.)  We learned that American Native people taught the Pilgrims how to grow corn.

 

     Morah Susan begins stirring the batter. We take turns making the cornbread, six children at a time.  This way, everyone gets a close-up view and everyone can participate easily.

 

 

      We listen to a story about Thanksgiving (above.)  It's called Thanksgiving Mice, and it offers us a fun explanation of the holiday.

   We use leaf motif cookie cutters and paint to create our attractive table decoration.  (Below, Yannai dips the cookie cutters in acrylic paint, then stamps them on the cloth.  What an attractive table runner!)

 We paint pine-cones, too, to add to our Thanksgiving table.  (Below,  Evan chooses his  pine-cones and shakes them up.)

KDH enjoyed preparing for the grandparents feast. Painting the pine cones and acorns was both a cooperative activity within our class and the entire school, as every class contributed to making the runners, and centerpieces that adorned the tables.

KDH worked together peeling and cutting up vegetables for the butternut squash soup. We were amazed at how quickly the children prepared the vegetables and surprise ingredient, granny smith apples, with enough to make almost 20 quarts of soup!

KB 5 was hard at work this week preparing for our special guests and the Thanksgiving Feast:

We painted Pine-cones for centerpieces using fall colors

We stamped leaves using cookie cutters for the table runners.

And we carefully stamped our hand prints on a special picture that we presented to our guests

In honor of the Thanksgiving feast, our class was in charge of preparing corn on the cobb. This provided a multi-skill activity featuring fine and gross motor strengthening by peeling off the outer husk and pulling it all the way to the end until it came off completely. It’s also all-natural – allowing the children to handle real produce as well as discover the original form in which it comes.

Kitah Bet - 3 Day prepares for our Grandparent and Special Person Thanksgiving Feast by rolling pine cones in glittery paint and stamping a table runner with leaf stamps.
Our pine cones and table runner were used to decorate the tables.