Our thanksgiving

This half term, the children and I have been learning about the Stewart monarchs. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had postponed this so that we could celebrate Guy Fawkes night and Thanksgiving whilst we were learning about the Stewarts.

We had never celebrated an American style thanksgiving before but thought we would try! So we had a thanksgiving jar for collecting slips of paper on which we wrote the things for which we are thankful. I must say that thinking about the many things for which I have to be thankful, cheered up the otherwise miserable last weekend when most of us were ill with a virus.

We read about the Pilgrim Fathers, in prose and poetry, and  had a Thanksgiving meal.
Turkey:

Sweet potato casserole:

and veg:

I chickened out of making punpkin pie and used some of our apple store, for which we are very thankful, to make an apple pie.

"O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 107 v 1