Thanksgiving Fun

 Thanksgiving Place Mats

Patterns - colors
Writing List
Drawing

Students need to make their place mats early because the total process takes a LONG TIME. They color the leaves in an AB or other assigned pattern in the colors of their choice. They also use our class list to write what they are thankful for and draw a picture. The place mat is laminated and used for our Thanksgiving Feast and then are taken home to use for their Thanksgiving Feast.




Turkey Feathers Game
Students spin for a color and then add that color feather on their turkey!



Pilgrim Visit - a dressed up pilgrim comes and tells the class what it was like at the first Thanksgiving.


Thanksgiving Beginning Sounds Match 

Favorite Part of Thanksgiving Graph 

Stamped Turkey Art








How to Cook a Turkey

Thanksgiving Parent Help

Parent Preparation Help:

Cut out turkey bodies
Cut out turkey feathers (in multi colors)
Trace and cut out cooked turkey (how to cook a turkey) (smaller than the sample)
Write students' "How to cook a turkey" on turkey templates
How to cook a turkey" picture sequencing book  - add blank pages for picture coloring

Halloween Parent Help

Parent Prep Help:

A parent to make a spider web on the ground with tape (easily removed tape).

Halloween Math

Bat Positioning
Listen to instructions to color the bats. Then listen to where to place the bats on the picture.








Counting Candy Corns (placing next to the number)

Candy Corn Number Chart
     Students add candy corns (according to the candy corn card) they put that many candy corns on their chart starting at 1 and going up. If they pull the witches card, they loose all their candy corns!

Sight Word Counting Book
     Students glue Halloween pictures on each page and fill in the sight word sentence with the number and name of the picture.

Witches' Brew
     Sort, count and graph the items in Witches' Brew

Halloween: Reading/Literacy Fun

Large Spider Web Collection

Read the entire sentence Halloween video    Mummy Scare

Halloween Toss (cans)

Halloween Writing

Halloween Costume Book  (Class Book)

Students use a template to write a sentence about what they are for Halloween. I used the template from ABCTEACH called bats and pumpkins.

I am a ... (witch)
I am ... (spiderman)


The students write their sentence on a pumpkin (that is only half a page) and in the book is their writing next to a picture of them in their costume!

Halloween Colors Book (Student Book)















Halloween Sight Word Counting Book (Student Book)

My Favorite Part of Halloween (individual page)

My Favorite spider activity (counting/adding/subtracting spiders on the web or reading spiders on the big web)

They also made their own spider for an art activity - identify the 2 shapes used (circle/oval and rectangles)
Students could paint a circle plate instead of cutting one.

Spelling Envelopes

Spelling Envelopes
Students decorate their own envelope. A label that says "Spelling Sort Envelopes" is placed on the envelope. Then laminate and place some velcro on the lid to close the envelope. (Envelope and velcro keeps the sorts' words together.