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Title: " Thank You, Sarah " by Laurie Halse Anderson
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"One Is A Feast for Mouse" by Judy Cox
We have been teaching our third graders about the Dewey Decimal System and have been sharing books from each specific section with them. For Thanksgiving we chose to read a book from the 300's section called, "Thank You, Sarah". It is a story of how a lady named Sarah Hale saved Thanksgiving by writing letters and articles to politicians tp try to convince them that the whole country needed to have a day set aside to be thankful for all that we have. At that time, only those who lived in the New England States celebrated Thanksgiving. It took her thirty-eight years and thousands of letters before Thanksgiving was made a national holiday. In the year 1863 President Lincoln made it an official holiday.
We paired this non fiction book about Thanksgiving with a fiction book called, "One Is A Feast For Mouse, A Thanksgiving Tale". This book has great pictures for the kids and a fun tale about a mouse whose eyes are bigger than his stomach. The Kids loved reading this book and I think they were a little hungry after reading about all the good food!