Pilgrim Snacks

Yesterday's snack was quite a shock to the class. Since we started our journey to Thanksgiving, we started talking about the differences from then and now. Although they are young, they are learning about what it means to be thankful and grateful. We talked about how difficult it was for the Pilgrims to leave England and come to the New World and how much they had to sacrifice. A legend from the first Thanksgiving talks about how little food was available for the Pilgrims and states that some days there was only enough food for each person to have five kernels of corn. For snack, we set out this sparse amount of food. The children were pretty shocked to learn that this may have been all that some Pilgrim boys and girls had to eat for an entire day. Don't worry though, we also had some cheese cubes and more popcorn to fill our tummies. Now that was something to be thankful for.