Today we reviewed Thanksgiving. Now that Danny has recently celebrated the holiday, he has the opportunity for more concrete recall of the subject. We began with discussing the plight of the Pilgrims. We completed a picture sort and discussed items that they would and would not have brought on the Mayflower voyage. Next, we completed an additional picture sort and discussed facts to determine if they were associated with The First Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving of modern times, or both. This included items such as when and how long the event is celebrated, things people brought, and ways we celebrate the day. We had fun with some Thanksgiving themed sight word activities which tasked Danny with finding targeted words, unscrambling words, and finding letters in sets of duplicates to spell out the answer to a riddle. Finally, we completed Danny’s Thanksgiving themed word search. He found the words Plymouth, stuffing, thankful, tradition, and turkey. We discussed what each word means and how it is related to Thanksgiving. Danny expressed that he is thankful for his mom, Dad, Jack, Katie, his house, school, and his backyard. The word search activities generate a great deal of attention and focus. For our enrichment activity, we began another book in The Magic Tree House series entitled, Vacation Under the Volcano (book 13) by Mary Pope Osborne. In the beginning of this historical fiction novel, we learn that over the books we skipped, Jack and Annie became Master Librarians and met the owner of the tree house, Morgan leFay. We jumped to the particular book as it ties in with our science study of volcanoes as well. In the book, Morgan uses the term “blend in” with helping the kids as they head to Rome. We discussed how their clothes from today, in America, look different. We talked about ways for them to blend in.