Thanksgiving Book

This week my CT decided the students would be making books about what they are thankful for. These books are made from brown paper bags that are folded in half. The front of the book will have a turkey's face and feathers will be on the back. Before the students started making the books though they had to brainstorm some ideas of what they are thankful for. The students came up with a whole list such as, cake, toys, baby sister or brother, teacher, Christmas, and Eid. Eid is a holiday celebrated by Muslims; before this holiday they fast for a month then have a big feast on the day of Eid. 

The first step to making this book is writing one thing they are thankful for on separate white pages, then draw pictures illustrating their ideas. One of my kids wrote Eid thinking it was Easter, another kid wrote Eid thinking it was Christmas. I couldn't help but laugh when the little girl told me Eid was Christmas. After going through each of the children's books to make sure they had correct holidays and proper spelling they had to paste each white page onto a brown paper bag page. Most of these first graders didn't know which way a book opened, nor did they know how to paste on their pages; even though we gave instructions and showed them. One little girl was doing her book wrong in every way possible, we tried to help her fix her book but, she told my partner and I that we didn't know what we were talking about. The boy across from her stood up for my partner and I and said "they went to school just like us and went to college because they got so good at it". This project was super fun and they all turned out super cute, but it took a lot of work to make sure all of the students were making them correctly. 

Here is a link of how to make the book and what it looks like when its done; 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Book-2218026