My Thanksgiving Writing Activity

Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you had a day full of yummy food!
I am jumping on here to share a fun writing activity to do the first few days back!

I have created three different level writing sheets for your students to write about their Thanksgiving!

One sheet has the sentence starter all typed out ("On Thanksgiving I..."), one has it so your kiddos will trace it, and the final one just has the question- "What did you do on Thanksgiving" on the top!

Grab this freebie HERE!

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Sensory Bin Turkey Letters

I added some fun turkey letters to our sensory bin!

You can do so much with these letters.

You can find letters in your names, spell words, or have a scavenger hunt and find all the letters, then put them in order!
If you would like to grab these for FREE, click HERE!

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Thanksgiving Activities and Games for the Classroom

I have made a list of fun activities and games that you can play in your classroom this month!

Check out what I found:

1.  Pumpkin Play Dough
This would be fun to make as a class or make and bring in.  I would use this play dough in my centers to make words, letters, and to solve math problems!

2.  Directed Turkey Drawing
I have done this with my class and it was so fun!  I had them all sit on the carpet with clipboards and we went step by step using these instructions!  This would make a cute class display!

3.  Turkey Bowling
You could have small groups each work on a "turkey pin" or you could make them yourself.  This would be a perfect game to practice subtraction!

4.  Stuff the Turkey
This one takes a little bit of prep BUT you could always just take a paper bag and glue a picture of a turkey on it ;)  To make it more educational, have students answer questions before they get to toss their "food" into the turkey.

5.  Turkey Tag
This one is a fun one to get your kiddos up and moving.  It is also great because there is a great book to read before you start your game!

There are so many fun games and activities for this time of year! 
What are some of your favorites?

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Toddler Tuesday {Preschool Ideas} Week 6

It is officially November and we are thinking all things Thanksgiving!

This week we made a Thankful Tree! 
We traced our hands, then wrote the things we are thankful on them.

I made a big tree on a piece of poster board and then taped our "leaves" on our tree!

It was so fun to hear the different things we are thankful for!

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Turkey Alphabet Toss

I believe learning should be engaging and fun!  With that being said, I think learning can be extra fun when your class can get up and move while learning!
I have created a fun turkey themed alphabet toss!  You can play this in a whole group or you can have a smaller group play it during your reading centers.
To set it up, place the turkeys in the middle of your circle. 

Students take turns throwing the bean bag on a letter.  Once they land on a letter or land close to a letter.  They will say that letter and mark it on their recording sheet.

To challenge kiddos, you can have them say the sound or think of a word that starts with that letter instead.

Another way you can use these turkeys is to spread the turkeys around the room on the floor.  Students will start on one side of the room.  You will call out a letter, sound, or object and the students will WALK and try to find the letter you called out. 
If a student finds it, they will step on the letter or stand by the letter.  Continue playing until you have called all the letters.  If a student runs or is pushing, I would have them sit out one of the rounds. 
Check out this center HERE!

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Run, Turkey, Run

I have been so MIA on here lately!  I have been posting on Insta, but not on here.  That is changing now! :)
Our principal emailed us in the morning telling us to have fun these two days and I changed up my plans a little- You have to listen to the principal ;)
Today, we did everything we could turkey or as some of my kiddos called it chicken.
We read this book:

So adorable!

After we read this book, we created our own turkeys using paper plates and colored tissue paper!

Save yourself some time and use the die cutter!  These will be the heads.

I cut a paper plate in half and my kiddos glued colored tissue paper onto the plate.  The feathers :)  To make it a little more educational, I had my kiddos count out 20 pieces of tissue paper to glue to their plate.

Once they were done gluing the colored tissue paper, they glued the head right on top.

They turned out so cute, but we are NOT done!

I also threw in some writing and had my kiddos write about where their turkey would hide so they wouldn't be eaten!

The prompt is traceable and then my kinders wrote in where the turkey would hide!  

We had a lot of them hide at the zoo.  I thought this picture was just so cute! :)

Enjoy your short week and if you are off...I'm jealous, but ENJOY!

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Thankful Turkeys

Two more days this week until a long weekend of eating, relaxing, and lots of SHOPPING!
Friday, we worked on our thankful turkeys!

I printed all the feathers on colored paper.  I "thought" I made a ton, but everyone wanted to put one friend's name on each feather, so we had to just write "friends".

I used the app InstaCollage to do my pictures!  Easy and fun! :)  I totally recommend it if you take pics on your iPhone when you are at school! 

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Take Me Back Tuesday

I'm linking up with Hope from 2nd Grade Shenanigans for her Take Me Back Tuesday.  Bringing back the oldies!

Check out this post from November 13th, 2012

Alright, back to my little turkeys!  Thanksgiving is approaching fast!  Today we were in a turkey mood and made the CUTEST turkey headbands!  The kiddos were loving this project.  I got so many "I love this project" and "Do I look like a chicken?"...we were getting confused but we got it all figured out!  We took colored paper and the kiddos traced their turkey feathers onto it!

Next, everyone was given a sentence strip that they could decorate!  Once everyone had their strip my kiddos WANTED to write a sentence!!  YES!!  Of course I said YES!  I was going to have them write sentences after about their turkey but if they want to write on their strip...who's stopping them!?  We decided on a sentence and they all wrote, "I see a turkey."

 I stapled and they glued on their turkey feathers and cute little turkey heads!  Everyone was so proud of their creations!  I have to admit they were so adorable and easy to make! :)

A perfect project to go along with a perfect Thanksgiving Pack!

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Old and New Products

Have you ever gone back to your first product and thought, "YIKES!"?  I did that today with my very first product-Give Thanks:Thanksgiving Activity Pack.  It wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best!  After aligning graphics, adding an ABC activity, and updating the cover/info pages, I can say it looks A LOT better! :)

I am pretty proud of myself because this original pack was all black and white which is such a color ink saver!  With that in mind, I made a new pack that is all black and white worksheets.  Sometimes we just need a good worksheet!  My new pack is called Print and LEARN: October.  It is 30 pages of fall and Halloween themed worksheets.  This pack only includes 8 pages of Halloween worksheets since not everyone can celebrate it in the classroom.  

These pages are perfect for morning work, homework, or just extra class work! :)

Concepts covered in the worksheets are beginning/ending sounds, letter tracing, number writing, adding, number order, and color words.

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Thanksgiving Feast ABC Order

Today was our last day of school until Monday!  The kiddos were excited to be off until one little one announces, "You guys that means no Daily 5!"  How lucky am I that my kids are obsessed with Daily 5!?  Today we had a Thanksgiving themed kind of day!  We did a fun ABC order activity!  I had the students name different types of things they eat at their Thanksgiving feast!  I wrote them down on cards and we worked as a class to put it in order!  They had a blast!

In case you are jumping ahead to AFTER Thanksgiving already...Check this out!

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Have you Entered yet!?

Time is running out to enter our The Weather is Frightful but this Giveaway is so Delightful giveaway!  If you haven't entered you can enter here!

Check out the cute turkey feather color match game my kiddos were loving today! I got the turkey pattern from an old Mailbox magazine and cut out the colored feathers from construction paper and laminated!  I also made number word turkeys and my kinders use real feather to match the number word!

Stop by tomorrow for a fabulous Freebie Friday!! :)

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My Little Turkeys

First, check out this awesome sight word linky party I found!  So many great resources!  I just made a great sight word activity pack!  Grab it here!

Alright, back to my little turkeys!  Thanksgiving is approaching fast!  Today we were in a turkey mood and made the CUTEST turkey headbands!  The kiddos were loving this project.  I got so many "I love this project" and "Do I look like a chicken?"...we were getting confused but we got it all figured out!  We took colored paper and the kiddos traced their turkey feathers onto it!

Next, everyone was given a sentence strip that they could decorate!  Once everyone had their strip my kiddos WANTED to write a sentence!!  YES!!  Of course I said YES!  I was going to have them write sentences after about their turkey but if they want to write on their strip...who's stopping them!?  We decided on a sentence and they all wrote, "I see a turkey."

 I stapled and they glued on their turkey feathers and cute little turkey heads!  Everyone was so proud of their creations!  I have to admit they were so adorable and easy to make! :)

A perfect project to go along with a perfect Thanksgiving Pack!

Don't forget to enter the The Weather Outside Is Frightful But This Giveaway Is So Delightful giveaway!

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Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

I'm not crazy it was actually snowing today while I was working on my new Let It Snow!  Literacy and Math Activities Pack!  See our first snowfall!!  I'm excited now, but talk to me again in April and it might be a different story! :)

Alright, back to my newest winter themed pack!  This pack is filled with center activities like word family sorting, color word building, and number word matching!  It also includes many worksheets to review center activities and other kindergarten topics like color words, sight words, numbers, and reading!  There are also two mini book that the students can make that have them reading color words, number words, and positional words!  I can't wait to have my kiddos start using this pack!  The best thing is it only has snowmen and penguin related clipart...NO Christmas related themes so your little ones who don't celebrate certain holidays will still be able to participate in all of these activities!

I also wanted to tell you about this great giveaway that my newest follower Cindy at Granny Goes to School is participating in!  Check it out and register to win!

Don't forget to check out my Give Thanks: Thanksgiving Mini Pack for more fun activities and worksheets to add to your Thanksgiving lesson plans!

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