Grade Level: Kindergarten
Thanksgiving: What’s on Your Plate?
Thanksgiving: What’s on Your Plate?
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Thanksgiving, Fall, ELA, Social Studies
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Social Studies, Holidays, Listening & Speaking, Reading, Health
Description: Explore the foods that were eaten at the first Thanksgiving and compare them to what the students eat today – highlighting any foods from different cultures. Using the food pyramid students, will create a healthy plate based on their traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Thanksgiving Turkey Disguise
Thanksgiving Turkey Disguise
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Thanksgiving, Fall, ELA
Type:
Craft, Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Holidays, Listening & Speaking; Writing, Reading
Description: A fun art activity paired with creative writing to explain how turkeys escaped Thanksgiving dinner.
Pumpkin Life Cycle
Pumpkin Life Cycle
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Halloween, Fall, Science, ELA
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Reading, Writing, Science, Life Cycles
Description: Read and discuss about the pumpkin life cycle. Then using differentiated templates, students draw, label and write about the life cycle. Upper grades practice writing paragraphs using transition words.
Classroom Recipe Book
Classroom Recipe Book
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Thanksgiving, Fall
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Listening & Speaking; Writing
Description: Your students will practice asking and answering questions with a partner around the topic of cooking food. Students will practice listing the steps of "how to" make a particular food they like. Then these student recipes can be compiled to form a class recipe book. (Perfect for grades K-3)
Thankful Turkey
Thankful Turkey
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Thanksgiving, Fall, ELA
Type:
Craft, Mini Lessons with Activity
Skills: Holidays, Listening & Speaking, and Writing (Supporting Details)
Description: It's time to give thanks! Use this Thankful Turkey printable to help your students express their ideas/feelings and elaborate using supporting details. They will have fun creating a turkey craft and pair it with a writing sample to be displayed in your classroom or sent home to parents. (Grades K-5)
End of the Year Newspaper
End of the Year Newspaper
Subject:
Seasonal/Holiday, Spring, End of the Year, Social Emotional
Type:
Mini Lessons with Activity, Printables
Skills: Writing, Social Emotional
Description: An end of year writing activity to remember their year. Newspaper themed templates for Kindergarten through 5th grade document their memories, favorites, achievements, and advice for incoming students.