How To Cook A Turkey
With the dreary weather outside, it was a perfect day to talk about Thanksgiving and all the preparations for that. We looked at the calendar to see how many days we would be off for our holiday. We talked about the food of Thanksgiving. These guys aren’t old enough yet to have that core memory of Thanksgiving- we have turkey. But alas, we did an activity called “how to cook a turkey.”
It’s honestly just something done for fun and for parent’s enjoyment. And in usual Debbie fashion it opened my eyes to a few things that I need to intentionally work on with my girls. Do you ask your child a question and the answer does not make sense? That is called receptive language. I was really intrigued. Obviously these girls do not know how to cook a turkey, I was not looking for accurate information. But when you ask, how many minutes would you cook the turkey or how long would you cook it and they don’t understand… And then you change it to what number of minutes would they cook the turkey? And then you just say, tell me a number and they still don’t understand … it’s time to look at our language section of the developmental learning standards and see if there’s something we’re missing that we need to do. We ended up with some pretty cute answers, but the biggest result of this activity was opening their teachers eyes to some work that we need to do.
Meanwhile – one more handprint turkey. These will be in your Friday book.