Native American Day is celebrated on the fourth Friday of each September.

We are lucky to have a Reservation within our school district's boundaries, and the influx of that culture in our classroom.

Today we celebrated the Native American Culture in style!

First we used dyed salad macaroni to make our very own beaded necklace!

(To dye, add food coloring and rubbing alcohol to salad macaroni.

Spread out on parchment sheets and dry overnight.)

Next, we created fanciful Native American Dancers from Tangrams and 1" Blocks.

Pattern and scripted lesson for this activity

can be found in our Thanksgiving Unit.

We were then entertained by the beautiful Native American Dancers

who shared their rich culture of dance with us!

And of course we cheered for our classmate that was among the dancers! **There is a great video on PBS about the drum used in this performance.

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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

© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk

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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:

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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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Turkey Research Study

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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