This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you survive Halloween in your classroom? I hope you did! All the parties and costumes and candy can make for some very excited kiddos...and one very exhausted teacher. :) Hot off the heels of one holiday, it's time to get

If you are looking for beautiful turkey and thanksgiving read alouds, check out these classroom favorites! You will love the literacy ideas!

Hello Everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend! I wanted to share a couple of quick but very special things. First off, we will be doing so many wonderful Thanksgiving related learning activities this coming week. One of my favs is our Thanksgiving Retelling Story Bracelet. As the kids are reading a poem about the first Thanksgiving, they are creating a bracelet with beads on a fuzzystick. You've probably seen this idea floating around for a while. I think it originated with the infamous Dr. Jean. I just love it so much. I updated the poem a tiny bit and can't wait to share it with my kids this coming week. You can get your copy of the poem and directions HERE! Oh...My...Goodness...I am so thankful for these kids and the gifts they give me every day!! Thankful for you, as well!! Your encouragement has kept me on this joyful journey!! Nancy

Help kids have fun writing during November with fun Thanskgiving Writing Activities inlcuding printable creative writing prompts. K-5th

Travel back in time with your first grade kids as they learn the story of the First Thanksgiving. Includes unique hands on lessons plans and crafts.

Download Thanksgiving Worksheets for Kindergarten and First Grade! Includes 30 pages of phonics and math activities plus fun pages!

First Thanksgiving unit includes 8 hands on stations and activities that will teach your kindergarten and first grade students about daily pilgrim life.

This Thanksgiving, make it easy on yourself by incorporating easy-to-prep, FUN math craftivities to reinforce math and ELA skills in the classroom. Students enjoy cutting, pasting and matching to create unique projects that can be easily differentiated to meet the needs of all learners in your classroom. Craftivities are visually appealing, and make instant eye-catching bulletin board displays. Check out crafts for both 1st and 2nd grade below, and score a freebie while you’re here! You can find links to the resource on TPT in the title of each craft! Measurement Feathers: Students will use any standard measurement tool that you choose to measure to the nearest inch or centimeter. Then, they will each receive a headband – they can wear their math craft! Thankful Comparison: Students will compare 3 digit numbers by cutting and pasting the correct greater than, less than, or equal to symbol. Pumpkin Pie Fractions: Students will match written fraction amounts to partitioned circles on a colorful pumpkin pie. Skip Counting Turkey: Demonstrate knowledge of skip counting by 2’s, 3’s and 5’s by filling in the missing numbers on colorful feathers. Turkey Digraphs: Students will color and sort pictures of diagraphs, and create colorful Thanksgiving turkey to demonstrate their knowledge. Cornucopia Count the Syllables: Decorate a cornucopia with Thanksgiving symbols and identify the number of syllables in each. Thanksgiving Corn Nouns: Create a fun corn craft by demonstrating knowledge of nouns – in particular, sorting words between person, place or thing. Turkey Sight Word Hunt: Students will read and search for common sight words for additional review. Then, they will assemble a fun turkey craft with their findings. Mayflower Counting Coins: Crate Mayflower ships while practicing money handling skills! Use coins to match set amounts on the ship sails. Thanksgiving Pie Equal Parts: Students will decide if shapes are divided up into equal or unequal parts and put together a fun Thanksgiving pie. Pilgrim Hat 3-Number Addition: Practice adding using 3 numbers by solving equations and then making a Pilgrim hat to show student work. Football True or False: Some people LOVE watching football on Thanksgiving! Decide if equations are true or false, and then sort on this fun football cutout. >Grab 2 of our favorites as a freebie on us to use with your own students this fall! Turkey Digraph FREEBIE Pilgrim 3-number Addition FREEBIE We have found that this brown construction paper is the best for crafts especially around Thanksgiving! It doesn't fade and it's a rich color! It's also $1.50 for 50 sheets on Amazon!!! Amazing deal! If you want to see more, check out the seasonal craftivities on Teachers Pay Teachers! We bundled all 4 seasons together as well as 6 holidays at a discounted price.

First Grade Thanksgiving No Prep Math and Language Arts Practice Pack 37 pages of practice for language arts and math for kids ages 5-7. This is an add on pack with some more advanced practice page…

Travel back in time with your first grade kids as they learn the story of the First Thanksgiving. Includes unique hands on lessons plans and crafts.

This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you survive Halloween in your classroom? I hope you did! All the parties and costumes and candy can make for some very excited kiddos...and one very exhausted teacher. :) Hot off the heels of one holiday, it's time to get

I am so thankful November is just around the corner! I am ready to wear boots, scarves and have my fireplace going 24/7. I am also so thankful because all of my hard work going over routines and procedures has paid off with my kinders. My kiddos and I can really get down to work

When it comes to finding the best printable Thanksgiving books for kindergarten teachers, there are several great options to consider. Some popular choices include The First Thanksgiving by Linda Hayward, Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland, and 10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston.

This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you survive Halloween in your classroom? I hope you did! All the parties and costumes and candy can make for some very excited kiddos...and one very exhausted teacher. :) Hot off the heels of one holiday, it's time to get

I am so thankful November is just around the corner! I am ready to wear boots, scarves and have my fireplace going 24/7. I am also so thankful because all of my hard work going over routines and procedures has paid off with my kinders. My kiddos and I can really get down to work

Travel back in time with your first grade kids as they learn the story of the First Thanksgiving. Includes unique hands on lessons plans and crafts.

This sentence editing printable is perfect for Thanksgiving with your early readers. The simple grammar fixes are great for keeping the kids occupied.

I finally had the opportunity to do some themed planning, and after frequenting The First Grade Parade {my new FAVORITE blog!} I was inspired to incorporate lots of her Thanksgiving literacy activities into my own curriculum. I owe her heaps of credit and am thankful that she posts so many easily doable activities on her site. If you teach primary, you must check her out. Enough italicizing, on with the projects! It just so happened that we were studying long a words this week, and this darling printable was available at TFGP. The kids could choose real words or "silly" {nonsense} words to write on the feathers, which is why this student wrote thave. They're totally adorable. We read The Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern, and then used a graphic organizer of the Mayflower to sort statements about what life was like aboard it. Afterwards, they created these adorable "suitcases" that they would pack if they were able to travel on the Mayflower in modern times. We read so many Thanksgiving-themed books this week, that I forget the one we read before we created this Venn diagram about pilgrims and Indians. I think it was about Squanto, though. We created another graphic organizer that discussed things the pilgrims did in the 1600s compared to what we do in the 2000s. Then, as a follow-up, the kids created a pilgrim child and were given the sentence starter "I can_____, but the pilgrims could not." For morning work one day, I gave each child a copy of a Thanksgiving poem that they were to write for the Thanksgiving placemats we created. The turkey feather spread were marker-tye-died coffee filters and turned out adorable. We also made scrapook paper turkeys with button eyes. Love them! First grade artwork is the best! This idea was my own and incorporates graphing, making predictions, along with connections. After reading so much about the pilgrims plight on the Mayflower, I decided to give my kids a taste {literally} of what life may have been like. They had to predict whether or not they thought they would like Mayflower fare - "salted beef" and "dry biscuits." The "salted beef" was regular beef jerky and the "dry biscuits" were drop biscuits made from Jiffy mix. The kids loved the taste test. Our focus in reading was predictions, so we created a prediction chart for T'was the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey. The kids loved this story! We followed this activity with the scrapbook turkeys pictured above. And, if you want to read the poem above clearer, here is the sample I showed the kids. Again, please remember that I borrowed many of these ideas for TFGP!

FREE Thanksgiving Color by Sight Words Activities for first grade students. Two color by sight words worksheets along with answer keys included.

Make the week before Thanksgiving break so fun in your classroom with these 2nd grade Thanksgiving worksheets and math activities...

Ahhh.. the holidays are coming… The air is crisp, the leaves here in Massachusetts are all shades of orange, yellow, and red and most of them have made their way to the ground already! With all the excitement, I know my first graders always needed high engagement. Anything that could keep my students […]

Paper plates and popsicle sticks create a moving Mayflower craft your students will love. It's a great craft to do when learning about the Pilgrims or the first Thanksgiving. Want to take the craft a step further? Have students write a few sentences about the Mayflower or the Pilgrim's journey on the back of the plate.

First Thanksgiving unit includes 8 hands on stations and activities that will teach your kindergarten and first grade students about daily pilgrim life.

First Thanksgiving unit includes 8 hands on stations and activities that will teach your kindergarten and first grade students about daily pilgrim life.

First Thanksgiving unit includes 8 hands on stations and activities that will teach your kindergarten and first grade students about daily pilgrim life.

First Thanksgiving unit includes 8 hands on stations and activities that will teach your kindergarten and first grade students about daily pilgrim life.

First Thanksgiving unit includes 8 hands on stations and activities that will teach your kindergarten and first grade students about daily pilgrim life.

I am so excited about my new Read and Write like a Rock Star program!

This week we only have school Monday and Tuesday. I am definitely ready for the break! Since we only have two days we won't be using our normal ELA curriculum, and that frees up a little time for some seasonal activities. We are going to read my favorite Thanksgiving story A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting. If you haven't read it before, it is a super cute book. Mrs. Moose wants to have a turkey for Thanksgiving. She sends Mr. Moose out to find a turkey, which he drags to their house. The surprise ending is that Mrs. Moose wants turkey to be a guest, not dinner! After we read we are going to make a flap-book to retell the story. We are also going to read All About Turkeys by Jim Arnosky. I love pairing fiction and nonfiction titles on the same topic. After reading students are going to web four new facts they learned about turkeys. I also created a fact family practice sheet to go with our theme this week. You can click on any of the pictures to head over to my TPT store and pick up this free download.

Kids will love making this super CUTE and simple Turkey Craft for kids. This is such a fun Thanksgiving decoration for kids to make with a cup and feathers.

Thanksgiving Bar Graph Worksheets for your 1st-3rd graders! Practice creating and interpreting bar graphs with a fun Thanksgiving theme.

I just updated my Thanksgiving unit in a big way! If you bought this last year (or earlier than today), make sure you go download it again ...

This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you survive Halloween in your classroom? I hope you did! All the parties and costumes and candy can make for some very excited kiddos...and one very exhausted teacher. :) Hot off the heels of one holiday, it's time to get

Hello Everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend! I wanted to share a couple of quick but very special things. First off, we will be doing so many wonderful Thanksgiving related learning activities this coming week. One of my favs is our Thanksgiving Retelling Story Bracelet. As the kids are reading a poem about the first Thanksgiving, they are creating a bracelet with beads on a fuzzystick. You've probably seen this idea floating around for a while. I think it originated with the infamous Dr. Jean. I just love it so much. I updated the poem a tiny bit and can't wait to share it with my kids this coming week. You can get your copy of the poem and directions HERE! Oh...My...Goodness...I am so thankful for these kids and the gifts they give me every day!! Thankful for you, as well!! Your encouragement has kept me on this joyful journey!! Nancy

I am so thankful November is just around the corner! I am ready to wear boots, scarves and have my fireplace going 24/7. I am also so thankful because all of my hard work going over routines and procedures has paid off with my kinders. My kiddos and I can really get down to work

Free Thanksgiving Activities for First Grade including 2 math games, a turkey book and links to poems and art. Instant download.

Thanksgiving and turkey activities that will help you integrate reading, writing, and science throughout the day. These are perfect for the K-2 classrooms!

November is here and it's passing by just as quickly as it came! The days are shorter, it gets darker sooner and with the Thanksgiving holiday it's a very short month for the kids. Continue reading for Thanksgiving Activities for Kindergarten and First Grade! Usually we spend November discussing Veterans Day, Turkeys and Thankfulness. Thanksgiving

This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Did you survive Halloween in your classroom? I hope you did! All the parties and costumes and candy can make for some very excited kiddos...and one very exhausted teacher. :) Hot off the heels of one holiday, it's time to get

Travel back in time with your first grade kids as they learn the story of the First Thanksgiving. Includes unique hands on lessons plans and crafts.

Travel back in time with your first grade kids as they learn the story of the First Thanksgiving. Includes unique hands on lessons plans and crafts.

Get ready for an EPIC month of November with these thanksgiving activities for kids including turkey crafts, science, worksheets, and more!

Download Thanksgiving Worksheets for Kindergarten and First Grade! Includes 30 pages of phonics and math activities plus fun pages!

November is here and it's passing by just as quickly as it came! The days are shorter, it gets darker sooner and with the Thanksgiving holiday it's a very short month for the kids. Continue reading for Thanksgiving Activities for Kindergarten and First Grade! Usually we spend November discussing Veterans Day, Turkeys and Thankfulness. Thanksgiving