Thanksgiving Activities: Turkey Time!

This week was all about turkeys! We started off by reading Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano. Such a cute book! Then we spent the week doing all kinds of fun turkey activities incorporating math, language arts, science, and art!

We summarized the story using this freebie from Rowdy in Room 300.

and did this free sequencing activity  from Kimberly Miner.

I made up 5 sentences about the story, then cut them up and paper clipped each sentence together with a number on it. Then I recorded myself reading the sentence correctly onto my phone, and the kids listened to the recording while putting the sentence together in the pocket chart.



You can get your own copy of this cute book here:

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Of course we had to disguise our own turkeys! This is the first year we tried it and I love how they turned out. 

We made a Can-Have-Are chart to learn about real turkeys. I just cut the head and feathers from construction paper and glued them on the back. 

For some math fun, we did some color by addition pages, and also this activity from Miss Kindergarten called My Turkey Family. We practiced drawing turkeys and got some practice skip counting as well!

Something I love doing with the kids is directed drawing. We've only done a few, mostly because I keep forgetting, but we got one in this week. They are great for kids to practice listening, following directions, and learning some basic art skills. Here is one for a cartoon turkey from Art Projects for Kids. Click the picture to visit her blog and get a free pdf tutorial. 

Here is how ours turned out!

I love how festive our wall looks now with all our turkey stuff!

Thanksgiving Close Reading Freebies

Just a quick post to share with you my newest free resource! I've compiled a Thanksgiving Close Reading Pack!

The sample includes 4 different levels of a fiction Thanksgiving story. Students will read the passage, answer the questions using text evidence, and make inferences and text-to-self connections! There is something for everyone! CLICK HERE to grab it now and let your students give it a try!

Check out some of our favorite Thanksgiving books!

 

                

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Turkey Time - Thanksgiving Activities & Freebies

We had so much fun last week learning about turkeys! It's amazing how excited kids can be about non-fiction stuff. My 1st grader loves doing research and learning facts! I love that I can start teaching my kids the process of  how to ask questions and find the information themselves.

He was so proud of his finished research project!

We read books and answered questions, completed a KWL chart and Can-Have-Are chart, compared turkeys and owls using a venn diagram, sorted turkey facts and opinions, labeled a turkey, wrote a turkey poem, and even learned how to draw a turkey.

 

You can get this non-fiction pack in my TpT store HERE.

 

Here is also a list of a few great Thanksgiving activities that are FREE!

 

 



 Pilgrim Hat Hundreds Chart Mystery Picture

 

 

Thanksgiving Color By Number & Color By Sight Words

 

 

Thanksgiving Informational Texts By: GreatMinds123

 

 

 

Roll a Turkey By: Cori Bloom

 

 

Gobblin Up Multiple Meaning Words By: Big Hair Speech Therapy

 

 

Thanksgiving Reader By: Erin Palleschi

 

 

Thanksgiving Would You Rather Questions By: Rachel Lynette

 

*Disclaimer - All of these products are listed as free at the time of this post. Sometimes authors change the price of products. I apologize if any are no longer free or available.

10 Books About Turkeys

 

I'm not sure what it is about turkeys, but something about them makes them perfect for starring in funny stories! Here are a list of some of our favorite turkey books!

1. Turkey Trouble
2. 10 Fat Turkeys
3. Run, Turkey, Run!
4. A Plump And Perky Turkey
5. Turkey Claus
6. Too Many Turkeys
7. 10 Turkeys in the Road
8. Turkey Surprise
9.Over the River
10. I'm A Turkey!

Here are also some cute craft ideas you could use along with some of the books:

Tissue Paper Stained Glass Turkey 

 

Paper Plate Turkey

 

Turkey Yourself

 

Let's Make a Turkey

Five for Friday!

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday to share with you 5 random things we did this week!

 

1. We made a visit to the children's museum this week with some friends! This is the best picture we could get with 8 kids ages 6 and under :-)

 

2. I'm always looking for fun ways to practice sight words with my daughter - so I printed out some words she knows and let her paint them!

3. We started learning about action verbs, so we looked through magazines to find words or pictures that showed verbs.

4. We finished up our ocean life unit this week. One fun experiment we did was to put some sand and water in a bowl and then added a little bit of oil. My son's job was to "clean up" the ocean - and we found out how hard it can be!

5. I put up a new Thanksgiving freebie in my TpT store! Color by number and color by sight word pages. Grab them here!

 

 

 

Have a great weekend!