The First Thanksgiving

During the week leading up to Thanksgiving we spent a lot of time learning about the first Thanksgiving. We read lots of great non-fiction text that described what it was like for the Pilgrims when they set off on their journey to America. We also watched the Charlie Brown video "The Mayflower Voyagers", which is a great little cartoon that depicts the real events of the pilgrims journey.

Each day after we read our story about the pilgrims, the children worked on making their own story. I gave them strips with mixed up sentences about the first Thanksgiving and they  had to put them together to make sense. After they figured out the sentences, we brainstormed what the illustrations for the sentences might look like and then the children illustrated. I was really impressed with their very detailed illustrations that very accurately depicted the story.

Here is the story of the first Thanksgiving as told by our class.