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Thanks for Thanksgiving - 4 Hour Class

As our centre welcomes and appreciates diversity, the children participated in the celebration of Thanksgiving in two ways:
 
 1. Making Cranberry Sauce
 
 
These are the ingredients that we used to make the cranberry sauce. We used sugar, orange juice, cranberries, water and a cinnamon stick.

Kianne pours the sugar in the bowl.
Keira adds the water to the sugar. As she is adding the water,
she said that the water will melt the sugar.
 
 
Nathan stirs the sugar and water together.
He carefully stirs to make sure the water stays in the bowl.
 

Sofia adds the “red berries” to the bowl while we wait for the water and sugar to boil.
 
After boiling the sugar and water, we add the cranberries and wait for it to boil again.
 
Sara squeezes the orange to get all of the juice out
 
 
 
Lastly, we add the orange juice and cinnamon stick to the sauce.
We hope you enjoyed the cranberry sauce as much as we enjoyed making it
 
 
2. Making a list of our thankful thoughts
 
At circle, we read the books Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes and did our list of the things we are thankful of.
 
 


I am thankful for:
 
Duke: my foxy                                                                         Adonis: my transformers
Keira: rainbow superhero                                                  Dayna: my mom and dad
Jaden: my sister and my shoes                                         Graeme: my giant puppy
Andrew: my sisters                                                              Nathan: singing
Sara: my bat dress                                                                Jason: my mommy, daddy & Emette
Alvis: my mom                                                                      Mateo: my mommy, daddy & sisters
Kianne: my cat                                                                      Timi: food
Georgia: my dad                                                                   Sofia: my mom and dad
Christina: my bunny & fish (Bubbles)                           Emette: my family
Tegan: my mom and my dog                                            Deanna: my family
Patricia: the world that we live in

We hope you enjoyed your own Thanksgiving celebration.

Until next time,

Patricia



 




 


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