Today and tomorrow we are wrapping up our Pilgrim and Thanksgiving lapbooks.  This has been such a fun study!  I can't thank the ladies at Hands of a Child enough for putting together such fabulous units to make our learning enjoyable.

Through our studies, we have learned things like:
What is the difference between Puritans and Separatists?
Where did the Separatists come from and why?
What was it like on that long voyage across the ocean?
What was it like trying to settle into a new land and survive your first winter?
What happened at that first Thanksgiving?
How do you calculate when Thanksgiving will be each year?

And many many more things.  For each activity, there was information in the research guide to help us find the answers to the questions and there was a fun graphic to put the information in to display in the lapbook.  I let my six year old do things like color the pictures and trace vocabulary words and draw pictures to go with vocabulary words.  Sometimes we even looked for clip art to illustrate the vocabulary.  She also did some of the booklets that didn't require as much writing, like Mayflower passenger statistics.   Then I had my nine year old doing the more writing-intensive activities such as the biography of Miles Standish and the mini-book on the Mayflower Compact.

Both children learned a lot from these units and had fun doing them.  We are looking forward to getting all of our mini-books compiled into the folders and getting to show it off to Daddy when he gets home. 

You might want to pop over to Hands of a Child today.  They are having a Cyber-Monday sale.  (30% off ebooks from noon to midnight tonight - coupon code CYBERMON)  You could get the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving for next year, or, better yet, get the Christmas Symbols and Christmas Cheer lapbook units to do with your kids during December.  Those are the ones we are doing next!  Oh, and we will be doing Katy's Big Snow in conjunction with the Christmas books.  I've been looking through that one and I can't wait to get started on it.  Maybe we'll even get some snow later this week to get us in the mood!

Have a great day, y'all!