Happy Thanksgiving!! We will be learning all about Thanksgiving in The Children’s House this week, as it falls this coming Thursday. It is a wonderful opportunity to focus on things that we are thankful for in our lives, and to encourage the children to be aware of the fact that not everyone in the world has food, or a home, or even a family, and to be grateful for all of those things – without getting too bleak about it!! It is a really positive celebration and we will be talking about the story of the first Thanksgiving, and do some related art and mindfulness activities, then some thinking time on why it is important to be thankful for what we have, and finally we will be doing some music and movement at the end of the week.

Thanksgiving Song (sung to Twinkle, twinkle little star)

Let’s be thankful for this day,
For our friends and for our play,
Let’s be thankful; let’s be glad,
For the food and things we have,
Let’s give thanks for you and me,
And our home and family.