Happy Thanksgiving

I hope your family had a wonderful time today, just like my little family did. We started our morning off with breakfast and watching the Macy's 88th thanksgiving day parade from the comfort of our home. The kiddos enjoyed that every much and squealed with delight when they saw the floats and the balloons of all their favorite characters. Watching the parade will now become a family tradition. We even watched a few movies, Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving Day Special and Free Birds.

Of course the day wouldn't be complete without food, which there was plenty. We didn't go out shopping to any Black Friday sales. It saddens me how the stores are opening up earlier and earlier. I guess next year they will open at 3pm since they started at 5pm. Today should have been about family, not shopping. 

Thanksgiving Homeschooling Lessons

We have been preparing for Thanksgiving during our homeschooling time, learning about the first thanksgiving and why we celebrate the day. As well as listing things we are thankful for. Our lessons this month included worksheets and crafts with thanksgiving themes. We even had a special thanksgiving snack with the help of Pinterest. 

First stop was the local library and book store to get a stash of books. Story times for us this month included books that dealt with our, theme of Thanksgiving. 

I believe having a Thankful Tree will become apart of our family's tradition. I think each year we will make one. For those of you unfamiliar with a thankful tree, it's simple. You make a tree and list all the things you are thankful for on it. I want to keep a scrapbook of all our thankful trees so we can look back over the years at the things we were thankful for. 

Thanksgiving Day crafts which I must admit, I will probably have the kiddos making these every year until I am old and gray. I have truly enjoyed this. It's fun now that they are older and we can do more.

But if you let the kiddos tell you, I am sure the candy turkeys were their favorite