Let the baking begin!

We made some peanut butter cookies with Hershey kisses this afternoon. Yummy!

I did my Thanksgiving grocery shopping this morning, and I can't wait for Thursday! We'll have a pretty simple meal since it'll only be our family, but we're still looking forward to it :)

I hope everyone else is ready to enjoy their holiday!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving!! We hope that you have all had a wonderful day with your family and friends!

We had a very good day. It was just the 6 of us here for Thanksgiving, and it was a nice, relaxing day. While most of you were having turkey and dressing around midday, we were enjoying some pasta :)

We had our somewhat typical Thanksgiving meal for supper. The kids and Dany had turkey breast fillets, corn on the cob, broccoli casserole, and rolls. I did my best to fix a small amount of my T'giving faves which my family doesn't go for, including canned cranberry sauce, corn bread Stove Top stuffing, a baked sweet potato, and a green bean casserole, and I enjoyed every bite! Chiara really enjoyed the cranberry sauce. She ate it by the handful :) :) :) I'm kind of embarrassed to admit to the canned cranberry sauce and Stove Top stuffing, but at least I didn't miss out too much!

Here are some pictures and videos of some Thanksgiving-themed things that we've been working over the past few weeks:

Here are the poems that the girls have been memorizing this month for Thanksgiving:

During the past week, we have been reading the book "Cranberry Thanksgiving" and working on a lapbook based on it. We talked about the New England states, Thanksgiving, cranberries, and some literary terms, such as onomatopoeia and consonance. Here are some pictures of the girls with their completed lapbooks and a video of Maria explaining it - with interjections from Chiara :).

The girls wanted to sing a Thanksgiving hymn that they learned :) ....

Matteo has been working on a fall-themed lapbook these past fews weeks. Here are some pictures. And, he wanted me to take a video of him explaining it, like his sisters do for their lapbooks :)