Perspective

This is one of my favorite art projects ever.  The "pine cone turkey" made by my oldest child around age 4. You can see in this picture that there are two sets of handprints... the small (poorly colored) hands are Marshall's at age 4 and the much larger hands are his from about 3 days ago... (yes tears occurred when I put this second set on the small pine cone.)  I am sharing this picture with you because it really tells a story.  Life moves so very fast and all of this time with your child will be gone in the blink of an eye.  Marshall will be 21 years old in the coming weeks and I continue to always think of him as my precious preschooler who needed help with his shoe laces and didn't always want to leave me for his preschool day. Enjoy your days together and take the time to play and color.  Your babies grow up faster than you know.

AND... We Did Other Stuff Too....

 Even with all of our learning activities with letters, numbers and history about the first Thanksgiving... we still had lots of time to do other stuff too!!!  And believe it or not... we went "above the stars."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is good to give thanks to the Lord... Psalm 92:1... and yes we thank God every day for the moments we share in our classroom together.

We Are Thankful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a blessing and honor to work with these beautiful children and their families this year!!! Yes we are so thankful for you!

The Feast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we are ... dressed as Native Americans and Pilgrims... so thankful for the many blessings God so freely gives to us!!!  Ready to begin our feast by blessing our meal with the Danish blessing, Tak For Maden.

 

Preparing For Our Feast

 

 

Our class feast is about the most exciting thing we do all year... well next to coming to school, seeing our friends, going to the playground, learning and all kinds of other stuff!  BUT.... it happened.  I kept the posts secret until it was all over so it would be a surprise for our parents.  Above you can see us making Native American pinch pots... of course ours weren't big enough to eat any food out of, but the children completely understood what it meant to have to make your own dishes before you could even eat.

 

 

We also have some pictures of cuteness and a tasty snack of "corn & carrots."  (also known as popcorn and cheetoh's)

 

 We had lots of fun making our Native American inspired necklaces ... complete with feathers and a seashell.

 

 We managed to have time for a visit from the librarian and chapel with Pastor John too.

 

 

And to help us remember how awesome the first Thanksgiving actually was... we made this little banner to use at home.  (of course... as a mom it also helps remember how small we were in the year 2019.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

We helped make the applesauce, vegetable soup and filled the cookies Senora Kathy prepared for us.

 

Then it was time for our family gathering...  we displayed our artwork and used all of our hard work to decorate the tables.  HOW EXCITING!!!  Our very first Thanksgiving celebration with all of our four year old friends and their families.