Thanksgiving Fun

Our house here in Gaithersburg is a townhouse on a street with
tons of other houses, 2 of which are also Pastor's College families.
It is fun for us to have others so close by. One of the other moms,
whom I affectionately call a homeschooling "diva", had a great
idea to do a Thanksgiving unit together as families. In all there
were 11 children. So the past 2 days we have spent the morning
together doing all kinds of activities to teach the children (and
those of us adults who remember nothing from history class!!)
about the Pilgrim's journey to America. Thanks to some great
resources, time invested, and some creative juices, this thing
has actually come off pretty well! The girls and I are really enjoying
ourselves. We've been having a history segment, a related
craft, and then a game that pilgrim children would have played.
Tomorrow will be our last day together with the big
event of our feast. I will write more then. Here are a couple of
photos of the past 2 days together.


Here the kids were playing a game with marbles


Aaron hanging out with his girlfriend, Faith


All the kiddos, except the 2 babies, having snack


One little boy left his cowboy hat here and Claudia though
Aaron needed to try it on