Each year the Kindergarten partakes in a Thanksgiving Feast. The kids work to create every food item they try, and then they sit down to a long table filled with placemats created by them, and they dress as Native Americans and Pilgrims. They get to create other arts and crafts that help them to learn about the history of this feast.
The Beautiful Table.
Harvesting their crop in the school garden.
Here comes the pilgrim
Our Pilgrim approaching us with pumpkins in hand!
Beside the tee pee
Helping to make corn bread
First pour all of the ingredients.
Then mix it all up!
Everybody gets a turn!
They made all sorts of recipes.
A pilgrim on a mission.
Creating a turkey!
Final product!
Making dolls out of cornhusks.
All finished!
Ready to chow down!
Always the best part of any meal --- the company!
Mommy was happy to celebrate with her Pilgrim.
Josh also learned a cute song to get in the Turkey Day spirit!
Joshie's 4th birthday was celebrated with grandparents galore! Bubby & Zaide, Grandma & Papa, and even Safta were there to help celebrate!
Although Josh already had his birthday party, it didn't stop us from celebrating, again!
Bubby & Zaide took Josh shopping for his birthday present (they did the same for Derek), and Josh picked an awesome new watch. This watch takes pictures, records video, sets timers, tells the time, has a stopwatch, and even has games!!!
NB Lower School has a Harvest Hoedown and Chili Cookoff. These cowboys got dressed up, danced their boots off, had incredible face-painting accomplished, rode horses, and even fed animals at the petting zoo. The Chili wasn't bad either!
Josh wants to become a fox like his older brother.
Cutest Fox EVER.
Now Benji wants to get his face painted, but we convince him to check out the animals instead (since the line was long, we didn't want to wait in it a third time, and we were going home to take baths anyway)!
Benji likes the ducks, too!
Benji begins to rearrange the duck corner into an amphitheater with all of the chairs he sets up around the cage.
Now he's off to see the bunnies.
But we couldn't get Derek off of the dance floor. He wanted to earn a prize from the DJ soooo badly! He finally did, just as we had to leave.
The next day Derek had off for Veterans Day, but Josh and Benji did not. So, Mili was wonderful enough to pick up Derek and let him spend the day with Isaac -- they saw the Trolls movie, played at Off the Spectrum, and even had lunch together. What a great day off!
Now that school is back in session, so have the birthday parties commenced.
Having fun with the birthday boy!
This is what a 6 year old thinks a cozy is for -- to keep his hands warm!
Derek makes a pencil and eraser out of legos.
The La Vans invited Daddy and Derek to an amazing Panthers Game! Shoot out for the win! Thanks!!
The next morning the Barbags joined the B'nai Torah community in a Mitzvah Day. The boys helped Mommy and Daddy created meals for Feeding Children Everywhere. It was tiring for the boys, but they did a HUGE mitzvah, and that's what it's all about!
A couple of school shots from Miss Denise's Instagram page:
