This last week, during the three day week, I found it to be pretty cool. On Wednesday, I got to take part in a feast with the kids. Since they could not use the word Thanksgiving, They decided to use a different name for the feast it was called a Friend-Ship feast which I found to be really awesome. The kids were all really excited and into the feast. Before we did the actual feast, we had to prepare it. So the kids separated into different groups to get the there part of the feast done. One group worked on the fruit salad, another worked on the cranberry jam, another group buttered cinnamon bread. One group set the table, and my group made the lemonade for the feast. It was really fun time and really cool to see.
On Tuesday, Jeff and I did a co-read aloud for the kids. I really found that to be pretty fun. We read the book Duck, Rabbit. The children were really into the book. They were laughing with the voices that we used during the book, and we even had to read to them the story again for a writing project they had to do after we read them the story.
We also had a friendship feast! It was in the afternoon so I wasn't there but I think its cool that many teachers incorporate holidays into their teaching while still not throwing any sort of religion on them. I think its important for students to know and understand holidays and teachers look like their doing a good job working around it by not saying thanksgiving but still showing and modeling the concept of the holiday.
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