In this unit, we talked learned about Families and who is in a family. We made family graphs and made our house book. The letter F for Family was our featured letter. Feathers, Pilgrims, Native Americans and Turkeys also filled our couple of weeks. We learned how to set a table and how to pass the food as we filled our plates with lots of yummy Thanksgiving foods (pom-poms). Strong hands activities included tracing paths, using clips to give turkeys their feathers and to match colors, and poking pipe cleaners into a colander.
More turkeys! We used beads and pattern blocks to make colorful turkeys and matched turkey tummy colors. We played a cornucopia game where we rolled a colored dice to find foods to put in our cornucopia. Corn kernals filled our sensory table. It was a bit noisy, but it they loved them! Sticky paper turkeys were fun to make. We used a stuffed animal turkey as a fishing pole (string attached to his beak with a magnet on the end) to fish for magnetic letters to feed our turkey. Plastic silverware helped us make patterns. We continued to learn about Mat Man and how to make pictures of our bodies.
Turkey basters were used to have pom-pom races! We matched shapes that were the turkey bodies and cut out lots of paper feathers. Real cranberries filled our water table and the kids were amazed at how they float! Pulling corn kernals from a real Indian corn cob with tweezers was a favorite activity. After we pulled them out, we added the kernals to our corn table. Do you like pie? We do, as we matched pie colors (older kids used color names, younger kids matched pie to pie). We used our math Unifix cubes to match colors to turkeys and built cube towers. Rolling a color dice to fill up our turkeys was another favorite. On the second day, we filled up our turkeys and rolled the dice to take away the colors.
