Today, after Center Time and Afternoon Meeting, we read a couple of books about Thanksgiving. One, Thanksgiving Day, told the story of the Pilgrims, and the other, Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey, was a funnier book about a turkey and a family in New York City (the turkey is meant for dinner, but the family happily ends up eating chicken). Then, we were off to the Computer Lab for a half hour.

When we got back to the room, we talked about our Penny Pal donations, and counted out a dollar of each type of coin. Each child made an estimation of how much money was in the bucket -- they ranged from $1.75 to $4,000,000.87. I'll bring it to the coin counting machine at the bank and see how much it is actually. We spent some time reviewing the letter sounds that we have learned in phonics class thus far, and practicing writing some simple words with those letters. Then, since it was a pretty nice day (there's no wind on our playground), we went outside instead of having Choice Time. After that, we were off to Spanish, pick-up, or the buses.