stART: Thank You Thanksgiving

This week for our stART project, we read Thank You Thanksgiving, Berry Thankful and Thanksgiving Is For Giving Thanks.

Abby has loved the Thank You Thanksgiving book by David Milgrim for the past few years. It's very simple, but the illustrations are cute. A little girl goes to the store to buy items for pumpkin pie. Along the way, she tells what she is thankful for, "Thank you snow people, thank you park" etc. My only problem with this book is why did this girls' mother send her child out by herself to the store! Yikes!

Berry Thankful is a Strawberry Shortcake book. Each of Strawberry's friends sit around the Thanksgiving table and share what they are thankful for.

Thanksgiving Is For Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland is another simple book about thanks.

After reading these books, Abby made a Thanksgiving Tree. We made one of these last year, so I just used the branches we already had. The leaves were foam cut-outs that I found at Jo-Ann's a few weeks ago on clearance.



On each leaf, Abby wrote something she was thankful for. Her first leaf was Matthew, her cousin. I thought that was so cute.



The jar is just a cleaned out PB jar with rocks in it to hold the branches in. Last year, I cut out leaves from construction paper in lots of colors.

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