Nov. 22, 2006: Table Manners

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in the Rocky Mountain News. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).

Activities:

1. Cut out newspaper words and pictures of things for which you are thankful. Make a Thanksgiving Day collage with your pictures and words.

2. Cut out a large circle from a piece of paper or get a paper plate. Look in the newspaper to find pictures of different foods you would like to eat on Thanksgiving. Cut out the pictures and paste them on your plate.

3. Interview at least three family members or friends. Ask them to name two things for which they are thankful. Circle any answers that are the same. Put a star by the things that make you thankful, too.

4. Which of the behaviors shown in today's Mini Page (a) could cause an accident, (b) could create problems for another person at the dinner table, and (c) could make another person at the table feel special?

5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about the Wampanoag tribe member Squanto. Use these questions to guide your research:

• Who was Squanto?
• What was his role in his tribe?
• How did he interact with the Pilgrims?
• Write a paragraph that describes Squanto and his life.
  
  

This week's standards:

• Students demonstrate respectful and caring relationships in the family, workplace and community. (Family and Consumer Science: Interpersonal Relationships)
• Students demonstrate appreciation for diverse perspectives, needs and characteristics of individuals and families. (Family and Consumer Science: Family)
  
  (standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)