Thanksgiving! 5th grade

Some people know about the very important holiday in the USA called Thanksgiving. Last week, the children of CEIP San Miguel got to learn all about it. Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in America on the fourth Thursday of November. Historically, it celebrates the great meal that the pilgrims had together with the Native Americans when they sailed to America. Now, the holiday focuses more on family getting together and feeling thankful, or grateful, for all the good things we have in our lives. Some examples of things we are thankful for that we talked about were family, school, friends, food, health, and pets. In Lucia's 5th grade class, we did a very nice project in which each student wrote one thing they feel thankful for on a turkey feather (turkeys are important to Thanksgiving because they provided us with food). At the end, they each stuck their feather on a big turkey! This was a great project for them because they got to understand a bit more about the culture of an American holiday and reflected about the things in their lives that really matter.

Here you can see the end result (the big turkey) and some of the students creating their feathers: