The Bearly Ready Four-Threeschool Preschool

Mr. Turkey’s fat today. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble! I hope you got a piece of that song in your homes! I loved this week. Rehearsing the story of the beginnings of the first Thanksgiving always gives me a thrill. By the end of the week, here’s how the children told it:

Cannon: They were pilgrims.

Graham: The king told them what to do.

Eli: They had to go to a new place!

Eve: They didn’t want the king to tell them what to do.

Eli: They say, “No! I don’t want to!”

Lily: They got on a boat because they wanted to do their own stuff.

Cannon: It was the Sunflower! I mean, the Mayflower!

Adelle: It was a boat that would hold a lot of people…everyone!

Ellie: The Mayflower was bigger than a house.

Makayla: There were no houses!

Clyde: They made houses with wood.

Smith: No stores!

Kyree: No houses there!

Ruby: No food there!

Leisel: They chopped down trees.

Ben: No house.

Nathan: They built a house.

Ellie: And they made hospitals, too!

Mrs. McClure: Think so?

Ellie: Yah, ‘cause people were sick on the Mayflower and some of the people died.

Stella: House.

Lily: The pilgrims didn’t know how to make plants grow.

Kaylee: They were so hungry!

Lily: The Indians were watching them.

Cannon: They put fish in the seeds!

Makayla: Rain can happen.

Clive: They planted pomegranates!

Charlotte: Corn!

Graham: The Indians helped them plant food.

Cannon: The corn started to grow.

Adelle: They had so much food!

Sherry: They wanted to share.

Cannon: The 99 braves came.

Lily: And the chief made 100 Indians!

Eli: I’m the bravest boy you’ve ever seen!

Mrs. McClure: Then, what happened?

Grant: Let’s just read it! COME ON!

Sadie: They had a feast.

Hadley: It was a Thanksgiving.

Eve: They prayed.

Graham: It was a feast because of the Indians.

Grant: They put the turkey in jail.

Ben: Someone shot it.

Clive: You did it wrong! Not in Jail!

Grace: They shot the turkeys.

Ben: It was the Indians.

Leisel: They shoot-ted the turkeys.

 Cannon: They had a lot of food and they were happy.

Adelle: We have Thanksgiving to make the world happy and fun.

While donning their costumes:

Kinzie: (Jumping up and down) This is the best day ever!

Eli broke out in song, “I get to be an Indian! Yah, yah, yah, yah!

(Filling her plate) Avery: This is the best feast ever!

So fun.

Best line of the week by Cannon:

Mrs. McClure smells pretty. I smelled her.