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Thanksgiving Week - 11/22/2010

It's going to be a cold week up here in the Pacific Northwest.  We may even get a bit of snow.  I definitely need to find more for us to keep busy with in the afternoons as I want to limit our screen time as much as possible, but going outside seems to be getting more and more difficult.  The high for Tuesday is only supposed to be 29 degrees.  That temperature is hard for this SoCal girl to wrap her mind around.  Yikes!  Noah is loving movement songs ("Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" anyone?) so we might be doing a bit more of that.  


This week is also THANKSGIVING!  I love this holiday.  I'm hoping that we can do a lot of Thanksgiving activities and talk about Thankfulness.  We just got Madame Blueberry: A Lesson in Thankfulness from the library, and we have a number of Thanksgiving books to use.


Here are our activities for this week....


Everyday - these unfortunately haven't been happening as much recently.  I think I'm going to have to re-evaluate our music and art studies for the new year.  We are still listening to our music fairly regularly, but he's not nearly as interested in Vivaldi as he was with Mozart.  Our art study is sadly neglected, but that doesn't mean that we won't try.

  • Listen to The Four Seasons or Ring of Mystery by Vivaldi
    • Talk more about what we are hearing
  • Read about Norman Rockwell and look through our big coffee table book of his pictures
  • Devotions and Bible Verse Review

Monday
  • Seasonal Workbox - Thanksgiving Coloring Page
  • Rotating (Math) - Sticker Math
    • This is a very simple idea, but it lets Noah play with stickers!  I'm going to give him a sheet of paper with boxes numbering 1-10.  He then gets to put the corresponding number of stickers in each box.
  • Extra Activity - Locktagon Construction from our Lauri Toys Primer Pack
  • Baby Box - Shape Puzzle

Tuesday

Wednesday
  • Seasonal - Thanksgiving Tot Book
    • I've read a lot about lapbooks in many blogs.  I'm not yet convinced they are right for us, but I thought this one looked fun.  Some of the activities might be too advanced for Noah, but we'll see.
  • Rotating (Music) - Make and decorate a tambourine out of rice and two paper plates.
  • Extra Activity - Help mama make a corn casserole and a pie for Thanksgiving the next day.
  • Baby Box - Tambourine decorating

Thursday is Thanksgiving!  We will be visiting family about an hour south of us for the holiday.  We always love going down there and being with them.
  • Seasonal - Color Turkey placemat we got from the dollar bin at Target
  • Extra Activity - Help with last minute cooking
  • Baby Box - Turkey placemat

    Friday

    Saturday

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