Tuesday

This morning for 'school' we made a Thanksgiving Tree. I cut out a big cardboard tree and construction paper leaves the girls got to tell me all the thing they are thankful for. We talked about why we have Thanksgiving... to tell God how thankful we are for all He has given us. That isn't really a foreign idea since in our bedtime prayers every night we say thank you for...
We've been learning about the seasons... fall to be exact. Noticing the changing leaves, etc. So, making a tree was a good way to merge the two ideas. We decorated the tree with beautiful leaves of what we are thankful for, just like God decorates the real trees with beautiful leaves.
Oh, aside from the concept of it all, they got to use the glue stick and take turns. Emma still isn't very good at taking turns, but we are sticking with it.