MFW 2nd Grade - Thanksgiving Week

So, this is when things get a little off-kilter.  Well, maybe that is too strong a word.  We are now going to skip to our studies for Thanksgiving Week.  Our curriculum has three days of studies lined out to do during the week of Thanksgiving.  So, we stop the regular scheduled programming, which would have been moving on to week #10, and do week #13, which is Thanksgiving week.

So, here is what we did for the few days before Thanksgiving!

BIBLE:  We read and discussed Psalm 100, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Ephesians 5:19-20, Colossians 3:17, and Luke 17:11-19.  The focus was in remembering to thank God for all the things He does for us.

SPELLING:   We continued with our spelling lesson.  No sense in skipping this just because of Thanksgiving!!

HISTORY:  We read The Thanksgiving Story which talked about the pilgrims coming to America and it was broken down into a few short stories:

Two Ships and a Big Adventure

A Ship Sales Alone

The New Land

New Homes in a New Land

A time of Thanksgiving

Read-A-Loud:  We continued with Sarah Whitcher's Story.  Oh my goodness....Tears for this momma.  Caleb was patting me on the shoulder and saying, "it's okay, mom, it's just a story."  Ha!!

Book Basket Reading:

The Littlest Pilgrim, Brandi Dougherty

Daisy and the Beastie, Jane Simmons

The Thanksgiving Story, Alice Dalgliesh (different than the one as assigned reading.)

Hands-On Activities:

How Big Was the Mayflower?

We went outside to measure it off.  

It was 90 feet long.  Caleb is a speck over there by the garage door.

And 26 feet wide.

Woven Placemats:

A Hand Turkey:

A Hand and Shoe Turkey: 

The body of the turkey is traced from Caleb's tennis shoe and the feathers/wings are tracings of his hands.  

  

MATH:  We did six lessons in our Singapore Math book....can't skip out on math either!

ENGLISH:  We did a couple of lessons this week, but kept them simple since it was a short week.

SCIENCE:  Caleb really enjoyed science this week.  He did lots of fun stuff with a pumpkin!!

Will our pumpkin float??     ------------------->   Yes it does!

How much does our pumpkin weigh??   ------------------------>   3.072 lbs!

And, how many seeds does our pumpkin have??     --------------------------->   222!!

And our Thanksgiving week came to a close.  Lots of fun learning and surely a week of fun things Caleb will remember for a long time.  God is so amazingly good!

Educating in Christ,

Momma/Pam