We All Bee-long: November 2013

The Most Interesting Things We Learned in our Thanksgiving Unit

Here are some of the interesting things we learned during our Thanksgiving Unit!
L--I learned that Wampanoag homes were shaped like a dome.
A--The Wampanoags used animal bones to make jewelry.
Ry--The Wampanoags made jewelry out of bones and seashells.
S--The Pilgrim houses were shaped like a rectangle.
D--The Wampanoags made their clothes from deer skin.
E--The Wampanoags painted designs on their body.
G--The Pilgrim girls wore a lot of clothes.
Mi--The Wampanoag put designs on their clothes.
MK--The Pilgrims wore fancy clothes.
C--The Wampanoag wore the coat inside out to stay dry.
O--The Wampanoag taught the Pilgrim how to grow corn.
Ma--The Pilgrims had a hard time finding food. The Wampanoag helped them.
Ri--The Wampanoag helped the Pilgrims to grow corn in their garden. They planted fish with the corn.

What do you know that is interesting about the Pilgrims or Wampanoags?

Our Thanksgiving Unit

We learned a lot about Thanksgiving. We learned about the Pilgrims trip on the Mayflower. We also learned a lot of Mayflower facts. We each wrote a fact that we learned on a Mayflower ship. (Template from http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/gobble.php) Here are a couple of our ships.

We also wrote opinion pieces. We wrote what it would be like to be on the Mayflower. We stated our opinion and wrote reasons to support our opinion. We did this on a postcard from the Mayflower.

We learned about Pilgrim and Wampanoag homes. We made a Pilgrim home and a Wampanoag home, called a wetu.

The Pilgrim homes are more rectangular and the Wampanoag homes are dome-shaped.

Then we learned about the Wampanoag and Pilgrim food. The Wampanoag helped the Pilgrims to find all the best food.