At morning meeting, we talked about our new month of November and what fun event is next, our Feast! We touched on a little bit about why we feast on Thanksgiving Day. We learned a fun new turkey poem and read a story, Homes ABC, and stopped at L for Log Cabin. We discussed our upcoming project of building a log cabin like the Pilgrims did when they landed here on this land long ago.
Our snack was fresh cucumbers and carrots with Tzatziki sauce and goldfish crackers. After snack we read a story about the first Thanksgiving. We then moved to the math room to talk about our new number of the month, 1. One for the first people to settle in America, and 1 for the Mayflower ship that carried many people across the Atlantic Ocean to the new world. We also played a fun game with our number line and number recognition for the numbers 1 through 10. Our shape of the month will be a triangle.
We had outdoor recess today, what a beautiful fall day! It was hard to come in for pizza.
After lunch we came together on our Native American rug to talk about our teepee and some of the many things we can play in our teepee. We introduced the Wampanoag Tribe which were the first Native Americans to make contact with the English colonists, pilgrims. We learned some fun new Wampanoag words, pow wow and Wetu. The Wampanoag tribe used the teepee when they traveled to hunt. Their homes were called a Wetu made from trees and thatch and mud. We will not build a Wetu because we are building a log cabin. We read a story called ANIMAL TRACKS, and talked a little bit about how and why the Native Americans would track and hunt animals.
