Room 117 did a Thanksgiving play about a turkey in disguise. Click on the video links below to see each performance!
Room 117 celebrated Thanksgiving this week with a Thanksgiving Feast. We created our Native American Headbands, smelled homemade bread as it was baking, and made our own homemade butter. Yum! After all of the food was ready, we enjoyed every last bite! Delicious!
Happy Thanksgiving First Graders and Families!
Throughout the month of November, we have been learning about the history of Thanksgiving, pilgrims, Native Americans, and how things compare from the past to the present. This past week, we had our class Thanksgiving feast. In the morning, we made homemade bread, our Native American headbands and, finally, we made homemade butter in jars. After the bread and butter were made, we then sat down to enjoy all of the yummy food: pumpkin pie with whip cream, hot and warm bread with butter, cornbread with butter, and fresh fruit (oranges). The meal was topped off with apple juice! The students were so full by the end! Pictures from the event are posted on this blog, so please check them out!
Hope each and every family had a wonderful holiday!
All school year, we have been having a lot of fun in Room 117! It is my hope that each child is making many fun-filled memories of their year in first grade. See the pictures below for all of the fun they've been having!
The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving have been extremely exciting! We have read many books about Thanksgiving, learned about Pilgrim children of the past and compared them to our lives today, wrote stories about pilgrims and Thanksgiving, and created many Thanksgiving projects! We also created a turkey that was disguised as many things, such as: a superhero, Santa, a dancer, Grandpa, and more (so he didn't become Thanksgiving dinner!) :)
On Tuesday, November 26, 2013, with our Native American feather hats on top of our heads, we had a classroom Thanksgiving feast! It was SO FUN! We could smell the bread baking in our room all morning! After lunch, we made homemade butter, sang a few holiday songs, tasted some pumpkin pie and cornbread, and enjoyed homemade bread with our butter! We even invited, Ms. Krejci, our assistant principal to make butter with us and enjoy our feast! It was like the "Best Day Ever!". See pictures below to see all of the fun we had!
Ms. Riplinger, a second grade teacher in the Chicago-land area.