Building Thanksgiving Traditions With Young Children

From memories from my own childhood, to memories I have made with my own children (and now grandchildren), to memories I have made with thousands of kindergarten children, celebrating the traditions of Thanksgiving will never get old.

"Build a Turkey," an alphabet fluency game.

Playing a game from our Thanksgiving Unit, "A Feast for All!"

Make it More Fun With Music

I love the great Thanksgiving songs that are intertwined with those memories such as these:

Thematic Fun!

There are so many great activities, videos, books, and songs that make the season a memory builder as well as a great vehicle for teaching academic and life skills.

Our Thanksgiving Unit is stuffed full of great ideas. This Thanksgiving unit 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.

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Contents Include:

Literacy Activities:
Hop To It: Identifying Letters and Sounds
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

Writing Prompts/Word Wall (Style Choices)
Thanksgiving
I am Thankful For
Thanksgiving Word Wall

Art Projects:
Handprint Turkey
Easy Construct Pilgrim
Construct Indians
Tangram Indian
Draw a Turkey

Guided Reading Books:
Happy Thanksgiving

Social Studies:
Pilgrim Kids: Compare and Contrast Facts

Thanksgiving Thematic Unit

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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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Thanksgiving Writing Activities

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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