Thanksgiving lessons for first grade

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

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

Your Thanksgiving turkey keeps escaping! In this turkey STEM challenge, your kids will need to come up with a turkey cage design to keep the turkey nice and safe.

Have fun reading this book in November! Turkey Trouble reading comprehension lesson plans and engaging activities for kindergarten and first grade. #turkeytrouble #readinglessonplans #engagingreaders

This blog post was updated November 2019 Join my Newsletter Here This week, we read one of my FAVORITE Thanksgiving books, Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano. I LOVED how this anchor retell chart came out!!! We talked about each part one at a time and the kids went back to their desks to draw the ... Read More about Thanksgiving Fun

FUN Turkey Game that is both Thanksgiving activities, Fall STEM, and a physics science experimetn too! Try Turkey Races in November!

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…

The leaves are beautiful and swirling around! We're deep into fall! Time to prep your November resources. Here are a few mini lessons and activities we mix into our daily routines this month. Scroll along to see several mini lesson ideas and grab some free resources you can use for a fall theme in your own classroom! Veteran's Day In honor of Veteran's in our community, our school hosts a Veteran's Day assembly. The school lines the hallways with notes and pictures of gratitude. Our classes…

These Charlie Brown Thanksgiving activities are the perfect addition to your Thanksgiving lesson plans! Teach key language arts skills through festive books.

Looking for FUN, low prep Thanksgiving activities in your elementary classroom? This Turkey Day resource is FULL of center activities (math literacy science and stem included), writing pages, crafts, and more! Students will love completing these Turkey stations and helping to "Save the Turkey!" Includes everything you need to enjoy November! Read more about how we celebrate Turkey Day in my first grade classroom!