Throwback Thursday to Thanksgiving

Here are videos (that I thought I lost but just recently found!) of some of our Thanksgiving activities from November.

This is a choral reading of Psalm 100 written by me using the King James Version. We presented to the whole school during the Friday morning assembly before Thanksgiving break.

I found a fantastic writing project on Teachers Pay Teacher via Pinterest. The kids wrote persuasive pieces. In their writing the kids pretended they were turkeys writing letters to the farmer trying to convince him not to eat turkey for Thanksgiving. Then they decorated their turkeys with disguises. This is by far one of the most popular projects of this school year!

After each of the kids read their persuasive letters in class, they paraded their turkeys in disguise in all our lower elementary classrooms.

2014 Scientist of the Week :: Egg Power

2014 Scientist of the Week :: Raw Egg Peeler

2014 Scientist of the Week :: Making Perfume

2014 Scientist of the Week :: Drinking Plants

This is what happened to one of the flowers after letting it sit in the colored water for 24 hours.

To make things interesting, we split the stem of one of the flowers. We put half of the stem in blue water and the other half in red water.

After 24 hours, the flower petals on the side of the blue water turned blue
and the flower petals on the side of the red water turned red! Amazing.

2014 Scientist of the Week :: Making Butter

The kids really enjoyed this experiment that demonstrates a physical change of matter.

2014 Scientist of the Week | Soda Geysers

2014 Historian of the Week :: Elvis

2014 Historian of the Week :: Jane Goodall

2014 Historian of the Week :: John Loagie Baird

2014 Historian of the Week :: Albert Einstein