It wasn't all bad though. One of the lessons that I got to teach that day was about Thanksgiving. I showed my students a video clip on how Thanksgiving first started with the Pilgrims. We talked about the first Thanksgiving, and how it was a huge feast celebrating the friendship between the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
We also watched clips from the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. My students loved the balloons, especially the one of Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon! In Belfast there is a parade with floats and balloons on St. Patrick's Day, but my class said it is nowhere near a big as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
It was a lot of fun talking about all of the different things we eat on Thanksgiving, the football that people watch, and the parade. I also told the students that a large part of THANKSgiving is talking about what we are thankful for. I told the class that I was thankful for my family, friends, education, and the ability to travel. As an activity, the whole class made turkeys by tracing their hand, and then wrote things they were thankful for on the "feathers". Here are some pictures of the turkeys!
Hand turkeys from P6T
Our Thanksgiving Board in the classroom
Stay tuned for the next post on our earthquake evacuation drill!
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