Sugarplum's Thanksgiving lapbook

Here's our Sugarplum's lapbook, we mostly studied the history of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower. We colored a map of the Mayflower's voyage, and we did Valerie from CPP's 'What they brought' layered book, and her Bible verse cards.



Our big girl, 6 worked a little on vocabulary words



She listed her blessings, and compared Pilgrim children with children today...



We learned a little about the Wompanoag nation and what the first Thanksgiving was like.



She even made her own version of the 'Pilgrim, Pilgrim' mini-book by using the words from the poem and adding her own artwork. We used Draw, Write Now! book 2 for the pictures she drew.

Superman's Thanksgiving lapbook

Our little guy did his own lapbook. He's 4 and really not into coloring/writing yet :) He did one of the mini-books from enchanted learning and did his 5 senses turkey book. We did Valerie's layered book on what the Pilgrim's brought. And at the bottom is his handprint turkey.

Thanksgiving Lapbook

So this is my first time doing this, and I'm not sure it's working, but here goes. I can't get the links to do their thing today--ah, the challenges of the not-so-techy!

Over at http://www.christianpreschoolprintables.com/, Valerie has started a meme on Pilgrims which is fantastic because that is exactly what I was searching for for our next lapbook. I love this site and the work she puts into it is amazing!

For this month, we're going to break it down into 4 weeks. Each week, I plan on focusing on a different part of our theme.

Week 1-The Mayflower- http://www.plimoth.org/ Has some tons of info!
A site where you can sign up to receive emails from a pilgrim child and a Native American child - http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters.asp

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/map/ also has a map and a Mayflower craft.

Week 2- We'll learn about life in the new World for the Seperatist (Pilgrim) children http://www.plimoth.org/ for more on that.

This site has a pilgrim page, and a Thanksgiving page and a Native page visit http://www.littlegiraffes.com/pilgrimpage.html

Week 3-We'll study some Native American Culture

Week 4-Thanksgiving Icons:
Cornacopia
Corn
Turkey

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/index.html for a bunch of free printables and ideas.