Turkey Theme Teaching
November is a great month to talk turkey in the classroom. I love connecting turkeys to student learning because it brings back childhood memories of growing up on a farm, which included thousands of turkeys.
As a kid, I loved riding the turkey feeders around the barns, walking in the pens with thousands of turkeys following behind, picking up turkey feathers to use for anything and everything, listening to thousands of turkeys gobble on command, or just watching the fascinating life of a turkey.
I love sharing with my students facts about these fascinating birds that are native to North America. In fact, did you know that Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the turkey, not the Bald Eagle, our national bird!
Turkey was a favorite meal for early colonists as they found it to be a extremely plentiful, very scrumptious bird. It became the meal of choice when Thanksgiving became a national holiday in 1863. Since that declaration, Americans have made turkey the number one choice for their Thanksgiving plate. Because of this, turkey farms have sprung up across the United States, just like the one I lived on as a young girl.
So, bring on some turkey talk into your classroom and expand your students knowledge-base about America’s favorite domesticated dinner.
Of course, I begin all of my units with a song, and my study of turkeys is no different! I have a lot of favorite turkey songs, here is one that you might like to try.
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A Turkey Game
Try this turkey game: Make a large turkey body out of butcher paper. Cut multi-colored turkey feathers. On each feather, put a strip of alphabet letters, sight words, fry phrases, or just about any phonics concept that you want your students to practice.
On the student’s turn, they draw a feather, read the print fluently, and then add that feather to the turkey. The group cooperates to get the turkey looking his best for Thanksgiving day.
To add extra fun to the game, add one feather with an OOPS tail. When drawn, all feathers return back to the pile! Kids love this game, especially if you keep the pace going at a “fluent” rate.
Having students complete a turkey report is a fun way to teach the concept of research to your students. To make the report, you can use our purchased sheets, or simply make a cover and collect “everything turkey” that you complete throughout the study.
Creating a Turkey Report with kindergarten students.
To find dozens of turkey and Thanksgiving activities, you might want to check out all of our Thanksgiving themed activities.
If you want to hear more tips on planning for November, check out this episode of our Kindergarten Kiosk Podcast.
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Turkey Research and Report Let's Talk Turkey
Turkeys are fascinating birds. Help your students learn more by conducting a digital research study on turkeys. This activity will be a great companion to your November Thanksgiving studies.
Contents Include
Turkey Research Have Can Are Live
Turkey Diagram
Turkey Report
Turkey Guided Drawing
Completed Turkey Report Book
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Writing Center For Thanksgiving
Help young children become writers by having a writing center that is filled with learning activities that are easy to set-up and change! Both you and your students will love the predictability of these writing center activities.
Vocabulary cards for this packet include
Thanksgiving Words:
November, pie, hat, apple, cornucopia, Indians, Native Americans, pilgrim, pumpkin, turkey, family, football, leaves.
Contents include:
Can Have Are Labels & Worksheets
Thanksgiving Write a Story Task Card
Write a Story Worksheets
Label-It Task Card
Label-It Student Worksheets
Make a List Task Card
Make a List Student Worksheet
Make a List Word Wall
Write The Room Task Card- Sight Words
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Task Card- Alphabet
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Worksheets
Backwards Words Task Card
Backwards Words Worksheets
Backwards Word Word Cards
QR Words/Letters Task Card
QR Words/Letters Worksheets
QR Sight Words
QR Alphabet Letters
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Thanksgiving Songs and Fingerplays for November
November and is a great month to celebrate family, friends, food and gratitude.
Using songs and finger plays throughout the school day not only makes for a happier environment, it increases reading and math skills, and has proven effect on classroom management!
These song posters include links to versions on Youtube.
Twelve Songs Are Included
America
Go My Son
Ho Ho Wotenay
Over The River
A Very Fine Turkey
Five Fat Turkeys
I Am Thankful
Funny Turkey
Let's Be Thankful
Turkey Dinner
Glad I'm Not a Turkey
Thanksgiving Cheer
All of our thematic units contain songs to bring joy into your classroom. A few units I love to use in November are:
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Thanksgiving Activities for every area of your curriculum.
The perfect cross-curricular Thanksgiving Theme Unit celebrating the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people that worked through conflicts to celebrate a day of thankfulness.
Are you looking for successful tried and tested activities that will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting.
This Thanksgiving unit is strategically linked to Core Standards! It is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
Hop To It: Identifying Letters and Sounds
Hop To It: Reading CVC Words
Turkey Lurkey: Producing and Generating Rhymes.
Turkey Twist: Kinesthetic Practice With Letter Recognition
Dinner Rush: Naming & Generating Beginning Sounds
Thanksgiving Races: Developing Fluency
Rhyming Worksheet
Math Activities:
Turkey Guesses: Making Estimates
A Feast For All: Counting Objects to Show Physical Representation of Numbers
Thanksgiving Feast: Counting Forward From a Given Number in a Set of 10
The Turkey Dance: Identifying Numbers and Recording Results.
Thanksgiving Parade: Ordering 1-10 Ten Frames
The Turkey Bowl: Comparing Groups of Objects
Songs
Gobble Gobble Gobble
5 Fat Turkeys
I Like Turkey
A Very Fine Turkey
The River is Flowing
Rock a Bye Baby
Writing Prompts/Word Wall (Style Choices)
Thanksgiving
I am Thankful For
Thanksgiving Vocabulary Word Wall
Art Projects
Handprint Turkey
Easy Construct Pilgrim
Draw a Turkey
Guided Reading Books
Happy Thanksgiving
Social Studies
Pilgrim Kids: Compare and Contrast Facts
Wampanoag Kids Compare and Contrast
Native American Cultures and Social Study Ideas
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