This week we talked about our upcoming time away from school for Thanksgiving; a time many people think and share about feeling thankful, connecting their hearts with family. We thought about the word thankful and what it means. Children shared that the word thankful means to thank someone or to show love.
We looked at the word thankful and counted how many parts, noticed the letters and noticed the beginning. Sam said that the word thankful starts with the letter t, but it makes a different sound! Th work together to make one sound; th. We noticed the word the, thumb, and thump start like thankful.
We read the book Thank You, Omu!
Omu makes a stew for dinner. While it simmers during the day, community members can smell her delicious stew. They knock on Omu's door and she offers each a bowl of her stew. At the end of the day her pot is empty. When she hears a last knock on her door, she opens it to see all of her community members. "I have no more stew for you", Omu says sadly.
"We are not here to take, we are here to give!" All of the community members share food and stories with Omu. One child shares a kind note with the words, Thank You, Omu!
This story of kindness, love, and feeling thankful for the people in our community is told through colorful paper collage. We used the work Oge Mora to inspire our own paper collage.
First the children thought about and wrote who or what they feel thankful for. Then they used paper to show who or what they feel thankful for, ensuring their collage matched their sentence. We remembered how Henri Matisse taught us to draw with scissors. The children used their scissors to draw their work, using different kinds of lines and shapes to add detail.
The children's beautiful work is a collection of feelings; comfort, warmth, love and gratitude.
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