Media Activity for November 2009
Recommended Read-a-louds for all grades
Title/Author: Thanksgiving in the White House by Gary Hines
We have been talking up our historical fiction picture books and this one lent itself perfectly to the holiday this month.
For the youngest classes we simply read the story and talked about favorite holiday foods. The older classes 3 – 6 got the history behind the story. All classes knew that Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president!! However, none of them knew that it was Abe who made Thanksgiving a national holiday amidst the dark times of the Civil War. The back of the book gives details of the president’s life and also the Civil War. 5th and 6th graders are most interested in this. Everyone appreciated the antics of the president’s youngest son, Tad. After reading the story we read the page in the back of the book that tells “about the story” and how young Tad once hitched up his pet goats to a chair and ran them through the White House, upsetting a gathering of dignified ladies.
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