A First Thanksgiving Adventure

Your adventure should you decide to accept it will be to go back to the days of the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Then through your learning adventure you will learn why we celebrate Thanksgiving. Discover why the Pilgrims came to America. Then celebrate the joy as we learn of how the Pilgrims survived and the friendships that were made.
Take out your KWL chart and mark Beginning somewhere on it then tell me what you know about The First Thanksgiving, what you wonder about The First Thanksgiving and finally what you want to learn about the First Thanksgiving.
Vocabulary for this week:

hold: Storage area for food and supplies on a ship
latitude: North�south position on a map
MayFlower:The ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from England to America in 1620.
migrate: To move from one place to another
Pilgrim:One of the band of Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth, Mass., in 1620.
thatched roof: Straw roof
samp: A kind of porridge or corn-based oatmeal
Squanto:North American Indian of the Narragansett tribe: interpreter for the Pilgrims.
venison: Deer meat
Wampanoag: The Native American tribe of New England that greeted and helped the Pilgrims. Also known as �Eastern People� or �People of the First Light�