Long story short,
I skipped homeschooling Thanksgiving week as I spent approximately 5.784 days slow cooking, basting, caressing, and sweet talking this beaut of a turkey.
Just kidding!
Though, Thanksgiving week was in fact a short & sweet school week; Quinn was home all week from school and fun things seemed to be happening every day. We've been super careful about our outside activities so that we can still be in contact with my parents (Nana+Papa) and my sister and her family, who all live within 10 minutes of us.
This week we didn't do any of our normal worksheets and games; we studies everything having to do with Thanksgiving: the Native Americans and what their everyday lives were like, the Pilgrims + their voyage on the Mayflower, Squanto, and finally the first Thanksgiving. We also planned our Thanksgiving dinner - we made our shopping list, we decorated placemats and name cards, and we learned a few songs.
We made our own Mayflowers, complete with cargo inside the ships. We created Native American teepees with brown paper bags and real Native American symbols, we made corncobs with paint and Q-tips, and we played Blokus for money with Nana+Papa (just kidding).