Kim and I have teamed up for another great give away!! She just sent me her new Thanksgiving packet, and it is fabulous! There are so many great literacy and math activities. Seven different activities teach number combinations, sight words, story problems, syllable sorting, concepts of print, and rhyming. The children will sing, play, and work as they “gobble-up” how fun learning can be!The packet is a whopping 46 pages long and can be purchased here for $6.00
To enter this contest, please leave a comment and post your favorite LITERACY or MATH activity to use during Thanksgiving or the month of November. What books do you read, and how to incorporate your standards? Think about poetry, writing, reading, re-telling, etc. What math activities or centers do you do? I'm looking for literacy or math ideas - I think we all have TONS of turkey ideas!!
The winner will be drawn randomly on Wednesday, November 11, and will win Kim's Gobble, Gobble Terrific Turkey Activities Packet!!!
Be sure to check our her entire store at TPT -- she has so many great ideas that you will be able to use right away!!
I have children make turkeys with different colored feathers. On the back of the feathers, I have the children write things they can do for their families. Such as help with the trash, set the tables, let in the dogs.
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Turkey Talk! I have the kids make turkeys and draw a conversation bubble coming from the turkey's mouth. They write what they think the turkey might say if it could talk. Ex. Please don't eat me! or Help! The kids are so creative and it's always funny to see what they come up with.
ReplyDeleteTurkey Trot-This is a game I made up. I have a square poster of a turkey laminated and drew turkey footprints all the way around the poster with a start and finish line. The students roll a die (or use card deck) and move their game piece that many spaces around the board. Whoever gets to the finish line first is the Turkey Trot winner.
I have my students make their own indian number totem poles by stamping the numbers 1-10 in order on a sentence strip. They roll it up and put it in a toilet paper tube. But, first they have to build a totem pole with pre-made number cards. They color a totem pole picture and glue it to the toilet paper tube.
ReplyDeleteMy class is focusing on harvest and scarecrows during the month of November. One activity that is always a favorite is making a scarecrow. We use my hubbys old clothes, fill it with crumpled paper. Then we use interactive writing to label the scarecrow. The kids love it!
ReplyDeleteWe spend time looking at symbols that Native Americans may have used when writing. We discuss how they did not use an alphabet like we do now but they were still able to communicate with pictures. I have symbols up each day and we try to determine what they mean. We incorporate these symbols into our journal writing a few times during November.
ReplyDeleteIn my class we do a book called "Turkey, Turkey" based on Brown Bear Brown Bear. The kids love filling in the words for the foods they eat on Thanksgiving, as we do a Nutrition theme in November! We also write foods in the correct food group and find pictures in the grocery ads!
ReplyDeleteWe read the book: A Plump and Perky Turkey. It is about a town that can't find a turkey for Thanksgiving so they decide to have an art contest to lure a turkey in. My students have to write a story to explain how they would disguise themselves if they were a turkey and where they would go to hide. My students were so creative. One student said, that he would wrap himself up in wrapping paper to disguise himself. Then he would cross the seven seas to get to turkey land where he would live forever.
ReplyDeletei love all the turkey books we get to read in november! we also do a unit on families, talking about who is in a family and how they are alike and different
ReplyDeleteI made 4 Indians (1 per child in the center) and put different feathers on each one. For example, one had 3 pink, 1 purple, 2 green, and 2 orange. They had to count the feathers on their Indian and graph them on a sheet that I made that went along with this activity! We also did one whole group everyday for extra practice! They did great, as it was their first time graphing on their own in their center.
ReplyDeleteWe make a class book based on this pocket chart poem: Scarecrow, scarecrow, how scary can you be? You scared (Jacob) but you didn't scare me! I took pictures of the kids making a scared face, next to a scarecrow bulletin board to use in our book.
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