Thanksgiving Wrap Up…

We have had a wonderful Thanksgiving! It started Tuesday with Luke’s Thanksgiving Program and Feast at preschool. It was just precious and Luke actually sang! The only bummer was that the camcorder flaked out half way through and I didn’t get all of his songs recorded. L
Every other two year old had on turkey feathers except for Luke. He refused! The 2 year olds did the Chicken Dance and looked adorable shaking their turkey feathers.

We headed to Florida on Wednesday to Dan’s parent’s house. His sister and her family were already there and the kiddos had a great time with their cousins!

They all giggled and played from sun up to way past sun down every day that we were there.

Dan’s two brothers and their families joined us all on Thanksgiving and we all enjoyed a yummy lunch.

There was a wee bit of Black Friday shopping and leftovers on Friday and then the trip back Saturday.

We read updates of the Florida/Florida State game on Dan’s phone the whole way home. It was Tim Tebow’s last regular season game.

Since my mother is already rolling her eyes that I mentioned Tim Tebow’s name again… I might as well say- Go Gators on Saturday! My parents are going to the SEC Championship game and Dan is a smidge jealous. J


I have officially baked my Crunchy Caramel Apple pie 7 times this season! That’s crazy! I baked one for D3′s teacher, L’s 2 teachers, one at my parent’s early Thanksgiving, 2 for actual Thanksgiving, and then one tonight for our Hanging of the Greens at church. I love the pie, but I think I’m retired from this pie until next year.

We had two great services today to help us center ourselves on Christ’s birth during this Christmas time. I love the season of Advent and the anticipation of Christmas. It is the best time of the year!

Sunday Scripture: First Sunday of Advent…

 

Thankful…

I am thankful for my incredible, loving and giving husband. I am very blessed.

I am thankful for my beautiful, spunky little boys. They keep life entertaining.

I am thankful for people with wild enough imaginations and enough patience to write books… that I become addicted to…. That are then made into movies that I also become addicted to…

I am thankful for a great new house with a working furnace and ductwork. It’s great to be warm and cozy when it’s cold and icky outside. J

I am thankful for a great job that I love and a great assistant teacher to work with. It keeps my days filled with fun!

I am thankful that the Thanksgiving Program is done at school! And Luke sang!!

I am thankful for my crappy car. It’s old and beat up, but it’s paid for and gets me safely from point A to point B.

I am thankful for a great church to be a part of. I enjoy my time there and am rather fond of the pastor.

I am thankful for my kid’s awesome teachers this year. They love my boys and take good care of them… and teach them a thing or two also.

I am thankful for December! It brings my favorites- Christmas and the birthdays of my two boys!

I am thankful for all of the many blessings that God has given me- those I’ve listed and the hundreds of others that I have not!

“Give thanks to the LORD for he is good, His love endures forever!”
~Psalm 136:1

Thanksgiving Kid Crafts…

Last year I wrote this post about Thanksgiving crafts. Here are a few more Thanksgiving ideas that I either do in my class or would like to!

There is a great set of November printables at abcschoolhouse.

You could use one of the printable turkeys for a Turkey Glyph. This is one of my favorite activities to do with my kids. It really makes them learn to listen to directions.

This is the glyph that I use:

Turkey Glyph  students follow these directions to color their turkey:

  Boys orange beak, girls; yellow beak

  Yellow feet has siblings; Red feet does not have siblings

  Body: like to eat turkey, brown; doesn’t like it, black

  Color the turkey’s eyes the color of your eyes.

Feathers: 4 year old- red and orange; 5 year old red and yellow

Isn’t this a cute turkey hat?

Thankful Turkey

Here’s a cute little turkey from Family Fun.

We always make Indian Headdress in my class. We pattern triangles on a long thin sheet of paper (like a sentence strip), fit it to the child’s head and staple and then attach feathers (I cut out feather shapes) to the back. These always turn out so cute and are a good way to practice patterning.

We also make Indian Corn. I have the kids paint the corn shape with dots of paint using a q-tip. Then we add green paper “husks.”
It looks a lot like the one above.

There are some cute File Folder games at preschoolprintables:

    turkey        ship shape     perfect pies

I’ve never tried these, but they sure are cute.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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