We spent a couple weeks on a Thanksgiving unit where we learned about Thanksgiving Then and Thanksgiving Now. We read our favorite Thanksgiving stories and added a new favorite this year called Thank You, Sarah. If you have not read this book, order it now! I’m ashamed to say I did not know this piece of history, but I learned all about it right alongside my children as we read Thank You, Sarah off The Unlikely Homeschool’s Thanksgiving Book List (I love her book lists). We credit the Pilgrims for Thanksgiving, but it was actually a woman named Sarah Hale who saved Thanksgiving for us all! She lived about 200 years after the pilgrims, in a time when Thanksgiving was all but forgotten in America. Sarah spent 38 years writing letters to politicians and presidents to get them to make Thanksgiving a national holiday on the 4th Thursday of November. Finally, after 38 years of persevering, President Abraham Lincoln listened to her and made Thanksgiving a national holiday! It is a fascinating story of American history! We got this book from the library, but it is one I want to purchase and have in our home library.

Sweet Pea did a Plant/Food Sort.

We’ve really been working on Counting and recognizing numbers. This Thanksgiving Counting was perfect to practice those skills. Sweet Pea really enjoys activities like this.

We’ve also been working a lot on patterns!

We played a Turkey Alphabet Game where the girls reached in a bag and pulled out a letter. Sweet Pea had to name the letter and Little Bug had to give the name and sound of the letter. If they pulled out a turkey card they had to gobble like a turkey. This game was a huge hit 2 years ago with Little Bug and it was a huge hit again with Sweet Pea. We played twice; once with capital letters and once with lowercase letters.

Sweet Pea sorted the picture cards by Starts with P/Does not start with P.

We enjoyed our Fall units!

- Elaine