Our week began with our Bible lesson from our normal Bible coloring book. The lesson we have progressed to is from Exodus, when the people of Israel were complaining but God was gracious to provide them with quail and manna. The people of Israel didn't really have a great attitude, but God is a gracious and good God, providing for our needs, so we should respond with gratitude and thanksgiving. We have been learning 1 Timothy 4:4 "Everything God created is good; receive it with thanksgiving."
I explained the origins of our Thanksgiving celebration. We had a history/geography lesson. I pulled out our world map (a map mailed to us by a missions organization). I showed how the Pilgrims had crossed the ocean from Europe to the New World. We haven't done a lot of world geography yet, so it was a good introduction to talk about continents and oceans and countries.
| The next day we were able to get a few Thanksgiving books from the library. One book (Friendship's First Thanksgiving) was the history of Thanksgiving, with details about the Mayflower voyage, about the Indians Samoset and Squanto, about planting, about the harvest and about the feast in 1621. The other book (Celebrate Thanksgiving) had more about modern traditions of food, parades, football and family. |
For handwriting practice, we made a list of thanksgiving foods that we want to have next week. My daughter independently wanted to do a craft: she drew an Indian, then cut it out, put stickers all around it, added a magnet to the back and stuck in on the fridge.
On Friday of this week, we watched on Hulu.com the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. It was great - it had even more details than our library book and was a great review to all that we had been talking about this week.
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