Thanksgiving
Book: Duck for Turkey Day by Jacqueline Jules
Discussion: who came from a different country? parents? grandparents? – all of us came to this country at some time unless we are Native Americans)
Towel Folding Story: The Case of the Missing Turkey -- Rhonda Turley Piedmont, OK via PUBYAC. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4eojAsNlY (or search youtube for towel and chicken).
"Last year, I was in charge of cooking the family thanksgiving turkey.
I set my alarm for early in the morning so I could pop it in the oven to cook for our family dinner.
When the alarm went off, I got up, put on my fuzzy slippers and shuffled out to the kitchen to get the bird. I opened the fridge, and…IT WAS GONE!
Where could it be!? (this is where the towel folding starts…lay the towel out flat)
I looked everywhere!
I rolled up the living room rug (roll one end of the towel to center)…it wasn’t under there.
I pulled down the covers on my bed (roll other end to the center)…it wasn’t there.
I turned over the couch cushion (Flip rolled towel over so rolled ends are underneath)…it wasn’t there.
I looked under the chair (fold towel in half end to end, and hold upright like a bouquet of flowers)…it wasn’t there.
I looked in the flower vase (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)
I looked in the umbrella stand (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)…it wasn’t there.
I even looked in the trash can (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)...thankfully it wasn't there!
Finally, I looked in the cookie jar (pull up last corner of the towel)
(here’s the finale…grasp two corners with one hand, the other two corners with the other hand, and pull them apart…resulting in what looks like a plucked bird.)
…And there it was!"
Book: Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' by Eileen Spinelli. After calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.
Flannel/Song: The Turkey Ran Away
Song/Prop based on the book I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson. Story & directions here: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2021/12/something-special-for-holidays.htmlAction Song: The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven – based on the poem by Jack Prelutsky (lyrics here: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2021/12/something-special-for-holidays.html)
Other possible books (no time): Giving Thanks by Chief Jake Swamp or Thankful by Elaine Vickers
Didn't take the time for:
Flannel : Uno, Dos, Tres Amigos (reinforces idea that we all have come from different places but celebrate together; enumeration practice, learn/reinforce Spanish language numbers)
Diez Amigos "10 Friends" (glove puppets)Tune: “10 Little Indians”
Uno, dos, tres amigos,
Quatro, cinco, seis amigos,
Siete, Ocho, Nueve amigos,
Diez amigos son.
One, two, three friends,
Four, five, six friends,
Seven, Eight, Nine friends,
Ten friends are we.
Craft: Cut & decorate the Old Woman & her stomach contents (cut out stomach and mount ziploc sandwich bag on back). Also made handprint turkeys with construction paper, gratitude lists,
While they were crafting, shared the book Setting the Turkeys Free by W. Nikola-Lisa
