Happy Thanksgiving
Sunday, November 18, 2012
This week in the Bluebells class we will be preparing for our Thanksgiving feast. On Tuesday we will bake our pumpkin pies which the children have been looking forward to for some time now. We do a little finger play at the table before our blessing that is a great one for the later autumn from Halloween to Thanksgiving. It goes like this:
A fairy seed I planted,
So dry and cracked and old,
It grew a vine enchanted,
And magic flowers of gold.
I watered it, I tended it,
And truly by and by.
It grew a Jack-o-lantern
And a great Thanksgiving pie.
Our current story is told as a puppet play called "Mouse Finds Her Winter House". This is a protection story created by Suzanne Down, from Juniper Tree Puppets. It is a sweet story about mouse, spider, cricket and bear finding shelter in and near the pumpkin in the field. Suzanne reminds us that our children are so wide open to all the impressions of the big, wide, loud, fast-paced world around them, and that these protection stories soothe them and bring great comfort. Through the years, I have found this to be true. We are also re-creating this story in our circle time. so the children can really be the animals and act it out in movement, rhyme and song.
We wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving with family and friends!
Christine Culbert and Dagmara Marona