Father, We Thank Thee Copywork
A three-verse thanksgiving rhyme naming the small everyday gifts of nature and home
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About this printable
A traditional thanksgiving verse whose repeating refrain makes it ideal handwriting practice — students rehearse the same short phrase three times per stanza and build real muscle memory. The steady structure also makes it easy to memorize while copying. Popular for Thanksgiving units, morning basket time, and gratitude journals. 12 pages, 1/4-inch letters in manuscript print on dashed manuscript lines. Sheets included: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only. Traditional, 1882. Public domain text.
ON THIS SHEET: For flowers that bloom about our feet, · Father, we thank Thee. · For tender grass so fresh and sweet, · Father, we thank Thee. · For song of bird and hum of bee, · For all things fair we hear or see, · Father in heaven, we thank Thee. — For blue of stream and blue of sky, · Father, we thank Thee. · For pleasant shade of branches high, · Father, we thank Thee. · For fragrant air and cooling breeze, · For beauty of the blooming trees, · Father in heaven, we thank Thee. — For this new morning with its light, · Father, we thank Thee. · For rest and shelter of the night, · Father, we thank Thee. · For health and food, for love and friends, · For everything Thy goodness sends, · Father in heaven, we thank Thee. — Traditional, 1882. LETTER SIZE: 1/4-inch. HANDWRITING: manuscript print. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only.
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