We started out with a telling of the legend of the 5 corn kernels, a story of how the pilgrims had a hard first winter, with very little to eat. After learning how to plant corn and other crops, they celebrated the harvest the next year with the first Thanksgiving. In remembrance of those lean times, they placed 5 corn kernels by their plates each year. We made our own paper about the story, so we could take it home to share with our families.
In our math center, we made corn stalks with corn kernels glued on to match sticker numbers.
In the art center, we used corn cobs (both with and without kernels attached) to paint.
Our sensory table has had corn in it for a while, and we added beans, rice and farm animals this week.
At snack time, we taste tested 2 kinds of popcorn: kettle corn with sugar and salt, and hot air popped corn with butter and salt.
Then we added our picture to the graph to compare our favorites. It was pretty close, but more people liked the fresh popped corn with butter and salt!
We have been very busy with Thanksgiving activities every day this week. We will be pilgrims in the Thanksgiving program next week, so we added some fall details to our large white collars. We made Mayflower handprint pictures for a class book we are making, and enjoyed our Mayflower pretend play center and flannelboard pieces.
We have had Thanksgiving themed math and language building centers, such as number sequencing, letter matching, reading, phonics and fine motor practice in our practice workbooks. We also read our Let's Find Out magazine about how pilgrim and Wampanoag children lived.
There were also lots of turkeys: on the flannelboard, in our art and in the hall!
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