Turkey Tales

Claire has been making a few Thanksgiving crafts in her kindergarten class. Once a week I volunteer and help with some of the "centers" that they rotate to- so I see the different kids and how they do in class. Well, last week I was emptying Claire's backpack and pulled out the turkey that they had colored. Each part of the turkey was labeled with a color and that's the color they were supposed to color it. Claire had her name written on the bottom of the paper and it was beautiful! The coloring was so good! I hung it on the fridge and was proud of her because I had seen how some of the other kids colored their turkeys. I was going to scan it in to show- but having computer/scanner problems. (Hate my computer.)

She came in a few hours later and saw it on the fridge and just got a little mischevious grin on her face. I asked her what the grin was for and she walked over and took the turkey picture off of the fridge. She quietly said "Well, I didn't really color it." I said "What do you mean? Your name is on it?" She replied "Well, a mom colored this one. I put my name on this one and left mine in the tote tray." So she took the one that was the "example" and left hers in it's place. I just laughed and shook my head.

Today: she brought home a turkey that was made out of construction paper. They glued the different colored feathers on it. Then on each feather they wrote different things they were thankful for. She was telling me what she wrote on them....

1: McDonald's (I asked her what she meant by this thinking maybe it was our family. Oh no- she said Yeah, cuz I love the food at McDonald's.Top of the list- just dandy.)

2: brothers

3: sister (she may know something we don't I guess.)

4: grandma

5: grandpa

6: aunt

Notice there is no mention of mom and dad on there....