Thanksgiving was a full day of laughter and learning.  We spent a week learning a lot about social studies events and then we spent a day celebrating our own first Thanksgiving.  We wrote stories on animal hide (Ms. McGinley crumpled up brown paper bags and tore them in funny shapes), we made headdresses and decorated feathers. 

We made salt dough beads and painted them.  We could have traded them like the Indians did but no one wanted to give up their beads.

We made cornbread muffins to go with our stew.

 

We made butter to go with our muffins by shaking cream.

and we even made fertilizer with oreos, gold fish crackers, and jelly beans just like Squanto - only ours tasted much better.