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t is for thankful

what are you thankful for?

a simple project done in stages. children sat with me in a circle and they told me ideas of things they were thankful for (i realized that what a preschooler is thankful for can also equal what they wish for), i wrote them around the edge of the purple paper, then they went to ms. carol. she helped them identify colors and sizes in order to glue them together so each color would show. then there was turkey face making and glue drying.

happy thanksgiving, friends and families!

t is for turkey snacks

we were graced with a couple of turkey snacks this week.

thank you for the extra time and love, families!

p is for pinecone turkey

a variation on a common theme.

we used cinnamon scented natural feathers, a low temp glue gun, an old cereal box, scraps of construction paper, and a marker.

make sure you sing this song while you hold your little turkey:

i’m a little turkey short and fat,
here are my feathers, here is my hat.
when it is thanksgiving, you will hear:
gobble, gobble, gobble in your ear!

it always feels like an assembly line when we do “crafts” like this. these are activities where the product is what we’re working towards (unlike most projects we do).

i try to make the process worth something. like letting the children put both hands in the tub of feathers, letting them cut the extra scraps of paper while i use the glue gun, letting them break off little pieces of some pinecones to use for the beaks (plus quite a few extra).

and the children go home with something “cute” to decorate the home with.

t is for turkey

more specifically, turkey rob.

thanks to a daddy’s vision and ability, he turned my vague description of a “stump turkey” into this:

we named him turkey rob. each child colored turkey leaves, attached them to dowels and stuck them in one of the holes on turkey rob’s back.

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it only takes a grown up friend one time in the classroom to be considered a teacher friend. mr. rob is greeted with great enthusiasm when he comes to pick up his preschooler.

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thank you again, mr. rob, for making us turkey rob.

m is for mess

imagine tens of thousands of photos all labeled and organized in hundreds of different envelopes. then imagine emptying those envelopes, mixing up the photos, then stuffing them into three shoe boxes.

that’s the mess i have.

but the photos are here, all given an odd 10 digit number.

i think i’ll just look forward knowing i can dig through the boxes should i want to,

thanks for all the encouragement.