First thing this morning, we had the kids all help us take the white rice out of the Touch and Feel pool and color it all different colors.  Each child picked a color food coloring to add to their bag of white rice.  Then we shook it all up so that the color could get mixed all around.  Fun little way to encourage some morning exercise!  We made rice that was blue, red, yellow, and purple.  The kids loved it.....and it sure was pretty!

While our colored rice was drying, we FINALLY had our pictures taken.  The photographer was wonderful and interacted so well with all the kids.  I am sure that you will all be please with the pictures he took. 

After that, we played on the playground for a while and really enjoyed watching the wind blow all the leaves around.  We have to be careful out there because the acorns that fall are very hard and don't feel good when they hit us......but it sure is fun to explore what's inside!

Our story today was Thanksgiving Day by Gail Gibbons.  It's similar to the story we read last week about the pilgrims and the indians and how they shared the very first Thanksgiving together.  The kids all listened very well, with the promise that we would be doing something fun with our colored rice as soon as it was over! 

We used the rice to decorate the feathers on our turkey picture.  Very carefully everyone added rice to the feathers one color at a time.  The finished product was really cute and everyone completed it totally independently!!

For lunch, we decided to have a Thanksgiving picnic in the room next door.  The kids were all having such an awesome day, we had a special holiday surprise for them.  They got to watch The Berenstain Bears Count Their Blessings video during the picnic!  It's a cute story about the bear cubs wanting things that they didn't have.  A big storm came and when the bear house lost power, they all took some time to talk about things they were thankful for!  We reminded the kids how that's exactly what we had been talking about at school.

I hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!  Ms. Tiffany and I are so thankful for your children.....and for you allowing us the opportunity to work with them each day!  Gobble, Gobble..... HAPPY THANKSGIVING!