Gobble! Gobble! It’s Turkey Time!

Oh! It’s turkey time already! This year has sure flown by for me!   I have a couple of fun things that I’m planning for our short week next week and thought I would share them with you!

I don’t usually do word study during a short week, but I will focus on a sight word review.  I plan on playing this fun game that was a tried and true favorite in Kindergarten!  You can download it in my TpT store if you’re interested.  I wish I could put all the words in the world on the cards, but I just don’t have time! I’ve included a blank set if you want to hand write your words on it.

 

 

I also really love to read Steve Metzger’s turkey books!

  

I’ve made up some basic comprehension questions to go along with them for our readers notebooks.  You can download them if you think you can use them.

  

Here is another game that we played in Kindergarten.  I’ll play it again this year, but the children will draw 2 cards and add them together.

And finally, another fun spelling game that my first graders LOVE to play! I love that they love playing it because they get practice both reading AND writing their words! I normally use this game for their word study words, but next week, I will use it for a sight word review.

 

Have a great Thanksgiving, friends!

Thanksgiving Centers & Turkeys in Disguise

We had a lot of fun with our Thanksgiving centers over the past couple of weeks! It makes my heart so happy when the children love to practice what we are learning during whole group at centers!  These are centers that I’ve used for a couple of years now, but if it isn’t broken, why fix it?!

These next few math centers are part of a new center pack that I am working on.  I have quite a few activities done, but I’m testing some out to see how my kiddos enjoy them.  I hope to have them finished soon! (Said the girl who hasn’t finished any pack in a LONG time!)

Remember that sentence reconstruction pack I told you about a few weeks ago? The one that I was SUPPOSED to finish?  Well, this is one of the activities in it.  I never finished it :(.  I’ve started and not finished and October pack, a November pack, and a December pack! Someone tell me to finish! ha!

 This is another pocket chart center we did this week.

The children keep their response sheet in their book boxes so they can practice reading the sentence during our read to self time.

I have 2 write the room centers for literacy centers this time around.  For the first they searched for sight words, and the second was ABC order from Cara’s November Write On pack.

And we always have a math write the room!

This is a sequencing center – we counted by 10s this time around.

Turkeys in disguise is one of my all time favorite Thanksgiving projects! My families really did a great job with this activity and the children are so excited to share and talk about their creations!

The writing project is from one of my all time favorite bloggers – April from Chalk Talk.  If you haven’t visited her blog, you MUST.  She is always SPOT ON for what kindergarten children need.  I LOVE the simplicity of her activities.  Chalk Talk is the first Kindergarten blog I found over 3 years ago, and she totally inspired me to start my blog.  Please go over and check out her blog!

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Thanksgiving Fun! {Photo Overload!}

I usually share my activities AFTER the holiday is over..doesn’t help you too much does it?  So, this year, I decided to go through my photos and pull together some ideas that I have used over the past few years.  Maybe you’ll actually be able to use some of them before the holiday is over, right?!

But, first, I’ve just finished updated my Let’s Talk Turkey unit from a few years ago.  It’s an oldie, but a goodie!  If you’ve already purchased it, head on over and download the updated pages.  If you haven’t purchased it, you can download a copy while it’s on sale!

Here goes….all of the next few ideas are in my “Let’s Talk Turkey” pack.

All of these next ideas are from Kim Adsit’s Terrific Turkey pack.

The next few activities are ones that I have been doing in my classroom for years.  I wish I had these in a packet or available for download, but I would have to search and search on my computer to have them (if I even still have them!)

Some literature response activities:

The next few ideas came from The First Grade Parade:

And these were from a predictable chart we did:

And of course, we LOVE our undercover turkey project!

Phew – I hope that helps your planning a little bit!

I’m just finishing up a collection of fix it sentences for literacy center/daily five time.  I hope to have it finished and posted tonight! Stay tuned!