This week we learned a lot about the history and meaning of the American holiday, Thanksgiving. We learned lots of new vocabulary such as: Native American, Pilgrim, Wompanoag, wetu, Mayflower, tribe, village, treaty, grateful and thankful. Each day the children said one thing they were thankful for and put it on a leaf on our, "We are thankful for tree" we also made thank you cards to thank people in our lives for making us happy. In celebration of Thanksgiving and in relation to our IPC theme, houses and homes, we learned about how the Wompanoag Native American lived and the types of homes in which they lived. We learned about how the homes were built and from which materials. We divided into small groups and created our very own Wetus using pipe cleaners, felt and sticky tacky.
Purpose:
- to develop the children's understanding of why and how Thanksgiving is celebrated
- to develop the children's receptive and expressive vocabulary for words related to Thanksgiving
- to develop the children's understanding of the words grateful and thankful as well as ways to express thankfulness
- to develop the children's understanding of how Native Americans lived
Lpfö-98 connection:
- Develop a feeling of respect for other cultures
- develop their use of spoken language, vocabulary and concepts
- develop their ability to build, create and construct using different materials
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