Download Category: 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.

Skills: Holidays, Listening & Speaking; Writing, Reading

Description: A fun art activity paired with creative writing to explain how turkeys escaped Thanksgiving dinner.

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.

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)

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)