Turkey Turkey

Eli has been doing some really cool stuff in school this week. Of course the focus was on Thanksgiving, and the Pilgrims and Native Americans...what fun crafts you can do surrounding that! He's made a Pilgrim mask, the quintessential macaroni necklace, a 'hide' story, an Indian head-dress, a family feather for their class turkey, and this cool, cool Mayflower ship. He was so excited to bring it home and tell me ALL about it. And he had his facts down; it was as if he was reading from the same book his teacher read from him. And not only did he tell me, but he then told Lehr a few hours later over dinner. The same story. Word for word! We'd read a Pilgrim book at home that talked a lot about the journey over and the first months of the Pilgrims' life in America, but none of it stuck as well as what he learned at school (as usual).

One of my favorite things Eli did this week was his thankful Pilgrim. The class made Pilgrim bodies that opened up their jackets to reveal writings done by the kids. They were supposed to write about what they were thankful for. Eli wrote that he was thankful for his cousin, Treis. So heartwarming to me because he only gets to see his older cousin once or twice each year. But he was all full of stories from the last few times he saw him, and he was very heartfelt when he told me how thankful he was to have another boy cousin. Love him!