Happy Thanksgiving

Hello everyone, Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!

I am quite excited to celebrate my first Thanksgiving today. With this being the time to say thanks, I would like to thank God for all the blessings he has poured into my family every day. My husband and my son are the most precious things in my life and I most thankful for having them. They are the reason for me to wake up each morning. We also have been blessed with another baby to complement and bring even more joy and happiness to our family. We are very excited to meet our new baby in June 2013. God definitely loves me so much to beget a gift to me of these wonderful people!!!!

I am also thankful for my blog and all the people that take the time to read it and follow my work. When I started my blog in the middle of the year, I thought of it as writing a journal and sharing the things I was teaching my son. In addition to keeping a catalog of what people were doing, as a source of collective inspiration. There are so many amazing teachers that I follow, and every day I receive updates of the projects they are doing which are simply fantastic.  I learnt so much and I am still learning, and I love the idea to share all these great things with you!!! My blog is still a baby, but it is growing bit by bit every day into something great.

I enjoy writing on my blog and teaching very much. THANK YOU for your comments, opinions, time and support. You are all helping me to become a better teacher!!!!

Hope you have a wonderful time with your family today :))) !!!!!
Fabiana

Thanksgiving

This is my first year in USA, and my first Thanksgiving celebration. I am quite excited about the festivities and all the delicious traditional food is going to be prepared for the Thanksgiving feast. I am also trying to learn everything I can to be able to understand the meaning of this celebration, which is very much enjoyed by the Americans.

As I am teaching my son about Thanksgiving, I am also learning. My son loves reading and throughout this week, we read three books about Thanksgiving: Celebrate Thanksgiving with Turkey, Family and Counting Blessings by National Geographic; Thanksgiving Day - A Time to Be Thankful by Elaine Landau; Thanksgiving Is by Gail Gibbons. These books are excellent resources to learn the history of Thanksgiving, they are very informative, attractive illustrations, and easy reading.

Furthermore we made a Pilgrims hat, which I took the model and instructions from Fun Family Crafts -http://funfamilycrafts.com/pilgrims-hat/

My son also worked with syllables, patterns, sight words coloring pages, and ABC order. All these great materials were available for free on TPT. The links below are the ones that direct you to each activity my son did today.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Clap-the-Syllables

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Patterns-Cut-Paste

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Turkey-Sight-Word-Coloring-Page

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Color-by-Word

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-ABC-Order-Fun


In addition to the exercises, we played a fantastic game with sight words. My son loved it, and had a lot of fun reading the words. The following link is the direct access to the game.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3-Leveled-Thanksgiving-Dolch-Sight-Word-Games


Moreover, we made an Indian, Turkey and Pilgrim craft from toilet paper. The idea was taken from the DLTK Growing Together website - http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/crafts.html

We made the feathers of the turkey from construction paper. I asked my son to name six things he is grateful for, and then write each one of it on each feather.
Things that he said he is grateful for:
-His studies;
-Pilgrims and Indians;
-Food;
-Our house;
-His dad's work;
-For us, our Family, and the dog and cat.

I was very proud of my son for his list, and wonderful heart :)))!!! Such an amazing boy!!!!!

Hope you have a great weekend. Thanks :)).

Fabiana