Today we continued studying about Thanksgiving. We reviewed the story of the Pilgrims’ journey to the new land with the Charlie Brown story of The Mayflower Voyagers. In this video, we watched how Charlie Brown and his friends were Pilgrims on the Mayflower. We paused the video throughout for discussion. We saw how the characters wondered if this dangerous journey for their religious freedom was worth the risk. We focused throughout on some of the “long ago” elements and Danny was surprised to see the kids working in the new settlement. It was interesting to see that the Pilgrims and Natives feared each other and we were happy when Samoset introduced himself and offered his help to the Pilgrims. After the video, Danny labeled the clothing pieces of a Pilgrim boy and girl and an American Indian girl. We compared their clothing and hair. The Pilgrim girls wore a bonnet, apron, plaited hair, and shoes with buckles. While the American Indian girl wore a headband, dress, pigtails, and moccasin shoes. Next, we continued with a Time for Kids magazine article about A Time to Be Thankful and the Brain Pop Jr. learning video of Thanksgiving. Danny enjoyed seeing Moby the robot dressed as a Pilgrim! As yesterday we primarily focused on the story of the first Thanksgiving, we used these two sources to help us understand more of the tradition and how we celebrate the holiday today. We added some of these concepts to our Interactive Notebook. We noted that Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November. He also wrote about some symbols associated with the holiday such as turkey, pumpkins, and Pilgrims. Next, we discussed the meaning of tradition (something special that people do every year and gets passed down to other people). Danny wrote that his traditions for Thanksgiving are to eat turkey, his family comes to his house, and he eats pie. We also brainstormed and talked about things people are thankful for. We had fun reading Pete the Cat: The First Thanksgiving by Kimberly and James Dean. We saw Pete dressed as a pilgrim and performing in his Thanksgiving play. Danny also finished his positional word booklet, Where is the Turkey?, in which he’s using the words to describe the location of the turkey in the pictures. He did a great job with this! Finally, we worked a little more on his Thanksgiving word search.