Thanksgiving at PAS

During the month of November our class read Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving.  This book was chosen because many people have forgotten the real meaning of Thanksgiving. As a class we wanted to learn why we celebrate this holiday. We learned the exciting story of Squanto and how he was kidnapped as a young boy and taken to Spain and then to England.  He was finally able to return to his village in America where he helped the Pilgrims survive the their first winter in the New World.

We then read about the Pilgrims and why they came to the New World. We learned that they were not allowed to worship in the way they wanted to, so they decided to move to a country where they could worship as they pleased. After moving to Holland for a time they decided to make the difficult journey to the New World where they could worship as they pleased and where their children could grow up with their own culture.

During the month each child made a Pilgrim family and an Indian family which we set up with an Indian wigwam, a river, and an Indian in a canoe.