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The Thanksgiving Activity Book
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by Deborah Schecter
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The Thanksgiving Activity Book Deborah Schecter, Scholastic Teaching Resources
For Diane, who continues our familys Thanksgiving traditions.
Scholastic Inc. grants teachers permission to photocopy the activity pages in this book for classroom use. No other part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Professional Books, 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. Acknowledgments Thanks to Nancy Eldredge, Manager of Education, Wampanoag Indian Program, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and to Tobias Vanderhoop, Consultant, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah, Aquinnah, Massachusetts. Credits Quote on page 7 from Plimoth Plantation Almanack (Fall 1998) by the late Nanepashemet, Wampanoag historian and former Director of the Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts. I Can Hardly Wait and Funny Turkey adapted from Thematic Units for Kindergarten by Kristen Schlosser (Scholastic Professional Books, 1994). Used by permission of Scholastic Professional Books. Perky Turkey Puppet adapted from Peanut Butter magazine, Number 47. Copyright 1990 by Scholastic. Thanksgiving Day by Meish Goldish from Thematic Poems, Songs, and Fingerplays by Meish Goldish (Scholastic Professional Books, 1993). Used by permission of Scholastic Professional Books. Cover art by Judith Hoffman Corwin Cover design by Jaime Lucero Interior art by Maxie Chambliss, Rusty Fletcher, and James Graham Hale Interior design by Sydney Wright ISBN: 0-439-24119-7 Copyright 2000 by Deborah Schecter All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
Contents
Introduction

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Journey to a New World

Sail on the Mayflower! Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 What Did the Pilgrims Pack? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Parchment Paper Classroom Compact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Paper Windows for the Pilgrims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Wetu Means House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Foods for a Feast
Giving Thanks Around the Year Write-and-Read Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Harvest Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Thanksgiving Vegetable Platter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 No-Cook Recipe: Harvest Trail Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 A Pilgrim Recipe: Red Pickled Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Close-Up on Cranberries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Pop-Up Cranberry Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Do the Cranberry Bounce! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Cranberry Count-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Craft Corner
Patterned Place Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Plant-Pigment Napkin Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Good-Deed Bead Necklaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Perky Turkey Puppet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Pilgrim Hat Snack Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Fact or Folklore? Turkey Teller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Perfect Poetry
Pocket Chart Poetry Poster: I Can Hardly Wait! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Song: Thanksgiving Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Celebrate the Holiday!

We Give Thanks Collaborative Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Thanksgiving Memories Mini-Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Turkey Stationery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Resources
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Includes a reproducible activity page
Introduction
Welcome to The Thanksgiving Activity Book, a bountiful collection of ready-to-use activities, age-perfect poetry, and hands-on reproducibles that teach about the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, Native Americans, and the first Thanksgiving. Your students will pretend to sail across the sea on the Mayflower, explore Pilgrim and Native American homes, make an authentic Pilgrim recipe, and find out fascinating factsand folkloreabout the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Children also make a collaborative class banner that lets them personally reflect on the meaning of this holiday and a mini-book that invites them to interview family members to learn how Thanksgiving traditions form and change. Other fun features that will enrich your curriculum include: A big, colorful pocket chart poetry poster that lets kids count down to Thanksgiving Easy and festive art projects that kids can take home Engaging math and science activities Lively literature links Intriguing Internet resources
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Journey to a New World

Sail on the Mayflower! Game
(Social Studies and Math)
Let children learn about the Pilgrims voyage on the Mayflower with this easy-to-play game. Reproduce pages 16 and 17. Line up the pages as indicated, and tape them together. Glue onto lightweight cardboard, or laminate for added durability. (Make multiple game boards so that several groups can play at once, if desired.) Use a brass fastener and a paper clip to put together the spinner as shown. Photocopy and cut out the Mayflower markers along the dotted lines (left). Fold and tape to make them stand up. Give a game board to each group of two or three children. Players put their ships on START. The first player spins and moves the number of spaces shown on the spinner, then follows any instructions on the space he or she lands on. As children play, they will learn about the experiences of the Pilgrims as they made their voyage to America. The game is over when all players have made it to America.
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What Did the Pilgrims Pack?

(Social Studies)
Historians estimate that the Mayflower was only about 90 feet long and 25 feet wide and carried 102 passengers and 20-plus crew members. Because space on the ship was limited, the Pilgrims could only pack a few important items to bring with them to America. Invite children to pretend they are Pilgrims with a trunk to pack for their voyage. Enlarge and copy page 18 for each child. Have children glue the trunk pattern onto half of a file folder and cut it out. Model how to assemble the trunk as shown. Then give children each a copy of page 19. Ask them to cut out items they think the Pilgrims might have brought with them to America and pack them in their trunks. Invite children to draw pictures of other items to add as well. Afterward, ask children to explain their choices. (Possible choices include: water, dried meat and fish, cheese and dried biscuits, cradle, axe, sword, knife, clothing, iron pot.)
Parchment Paper Classroom Compact

(Social Studies and Art)
Before the Pilgrims got off the ship, their leaders wrote the Mayflower Compact, a document that was signed by all of the passengers. In it they agreed that laws would be made for the good of the colony and that everyone would obey them. Ask children why they think it was important for the Pilgrims to have such rules to follow. Why is it important to have classroom rules? Then, together, draw up a Classroom Compact. On the chalkboard, list rules children think are important for their class to follow. Record your compact on authentic-looking old paper (see directions, right). When the compact is complete, invite each child to sign it. Hang it in a prominent place in your classroom.
Parchment Paper
Tear open a brown grocery bag to make a flat sheet of paper. Crumple the paper into a ball. Mix about two spoonfuls of soil into a bowl of warm water. Dip the paper in the water and then spread it out to dry on a plastic garbage bag.
Paper Windows for the Pilgrims

(Social Studies and Science)
The Pilgrims built simple wooden houses that had thatched roofs, made of coarse grass or cattails, and small windows. They used oiled paper for windowpanes because they had no glass. Let students make their own Pilgrim houses to find out how oil helps filter light. 1. Give each student a copy of page 20 and crayons. Tell children to outline the windows of their house with crayon.
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Let children create colorful stained-glass turkeys using the turkey pattern on page 32. (Mask the writing lines before photocopying.) Have students color their turkey however they wish with crayons (pressing firmly). Then rub oil over each childs paper. Let dry, and display in a window.
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2. Provide scissors, glue, and a 2- by 3-inch piece of light-colored construction paper. 3. Have children cut the flap door along the dotted lines and fold it back along the solid line. Model how to glue the construction paper onto the back of the house so it covers the opening. Trim off the excess. 4. Let children draw Pilgrims inside the house and then close the door. Children may also glue dried grass or raffia to the roof, if desired. 5. Cover a table with newspaper. Dab a cotton ball dipped in vegetable oil gently over the windows on each childs house. 6. Let the windowpanes dry a bit, and then tape the Pilgrim houses to the windows of your classroom. Ask: What did the oil do to the paper? (It soaked into it and allowed some light to pass through.) To see the Pilgrim families, invite children to open the doors of the houses.
Wetu Means House

(Social Studies)
When the Pilgrims settled in America, they were helped by the Wampanoag (WAHM-puh-NOH-ahg) Indians. The Wampanoag People of the Dawn) lived in a dwelling called a wetu, their word for house. To build a wetu, they bent wood poles cut from trees and stuck them in the ground to make a dome shape. Then they covered this framework with mats made of woven plants or tree bark. Mats were also hung in the doorways to keep out wind. A wetu was often as big as 13 feet wide and 16 feet long. As many as 10 people lived inside. Let children make their own wetu. Have children follow steps 2 and 3 in the Paper Windows for the Pilgrims activity (see above), using the wetu pattern on page 21. Let them color the wetu brown, draw Wampanoag Indians inside the house, and glue on pieces of dried grass or raffia, if desired. Discuss the wetus dome shape. If possible, show children other dome-shaped structures such as the United States Capitol and various sports arenas. Then have children compare and contrast the wetu with the Pilgrim house.
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Foods for a Feast
Giving Thanks Around the Year Write-and-Read Book

(Language Arts and Social Studies)
How to Make the Books

Give each student a twosided photocopy of pages 2326. (Youll need to remove the Write-andRead Book pages from the book.) Also provide each student with an 81/2- by 11-inch sheet of construction paper and crayons or colored pencils.To make a cover, have students fold the construction paper in half the short way and write the title Giving Thanks Around the Year. Then model how to assemble the books. Fold pages 1 to 4 and 5 to 8 in half along the dotted lines, keeping the folds to the left side. Place pages 1 to 4 in front of pages 5 to 8. Place the book pages inside the front and back covers. Check to be sure that the pages are in the proper order, and then staple them together along the books spine.
We have lived with this land for thousands of generations, fishing in the waters, planting and harvesting crops, hunting the four-legged and winged beings, and giving respect and thanks for each and every thing taken for our use. Nanepashemet, Wampanoag historian The Wampanoag celebrated many Thanksgivings long before the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620. At these seasonal harvest festivals, still celebrated throughout the year, the Wampanoag express their gratitude for the gifts of the land. For example, in July they celebrate a Green Corn Thanksgiving (green corn is immature, but edible and sweet). In October they have a Cranberry Thanksgiving. Explain to children that the Wampanoag harvest and hunt different foods in each season. Have children make their books. (See How to Make the Books, right.) Read pages 1, 3, 5, and 7 together. On each of these pages, children can draw pictures representing the seasonal foods listed. Then, on pages 2, 4, 6, and 8, children can write and illustrate things they are thankful for during each season. Encourage them to think of gifts from nature, such a warm, summer sun or a delicious food that comes from the earth. When children are finished, invite them to share their books with classmates and then add them to your class library.
Harvest Sort
(Math)
Use traditional Thanksgiving foods to let children practice classification skills. Have children work in small groups. Give each group an empty egg carton and a plastic sandwich bag filled with a variety of harvest foods, such as assorted nuts, cranberries, Indian corn kernels (or colored popcorn kernels), puffed popcorn, and pumpkin seeds. How many different ways can children find to sort the foods into the egg carton cups? Ask children to record their ideas as they work (color, shape, size, kind of food, and so on). Afterward, let each group share the ways they grouped the foods. After completing this activity, children can use these materials to make Patterned Place Cards (see page 10).
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Thanksgiving Vegetable Platter

(Science)
Plant Parts
Leaves: lettuce, cabbage, spinach Stems: celery, asparagus, sugar (from cane) Roots: radish, potato, onion, carrot, beet Seeds: flour, peanuts, corn, peas, beans, bran Fruits: pumpkin, peach, cherry, apple, banana Flowers: broccoli, cauliflower
At the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims celebrated their bountiful first harvest of fruits and vegetables. Some vegetables, such as potatoes, are the roots of a plant. Others come from a plants leaf, stem, root, fruit, or flower. Write the words for plant parts across the top of a chart, leaving room in the left-hand column PLANT leaf stem root seed fruit flower for plant names. Ask children spinach to name different vegetables pumpkin and fruits. Then help them corn decide which part of a plant celery each food comes from.
No-Cook Recipe: Harvest Trail Mix

(Social Studies)
Safety Note
Check for possible allergies before doing activities that involve children tasting different foods.
Nuts, pumpkins, cranberries, currants, and corn were among the foods consumed by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag. When the growing season was over, the fruits were often dried and preserved for later use. Invite students to taste these foods. Set out bowls of dried cranberries, currants or raisins, popcorn, nuts, and pumpkin seeds, with a plastic spoon in each. Let children put a spoonful of each item into a small paper cup. (For added fun, serve the snacks in Pilgrim Hat Snack Holders, page 12.)
A Pilgrim Recipe: Red Pickled Eggs

(Cooking and Science)
The Pilgrims loved spicy food. They brought with them on the Mayflower spices such as pepper, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Spices made their food more flavorful and were useful in masking the flavor of foods that had begun to rot. Invite children to try an authentic Pilgrim delicacy, red pickled eggs! Give each child a copy of the recipe on page 22. Prepare the eggs in class, or suggest that children prepare this 400year-old recipe with an adult family member at home to serve at their holiday meal. As they make this dish, encourage children to observe how the ingredients change in the process (beets turn vinegar mixture reddish purple, eggs change color, and so on). This recipe was adapted from Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners by Lucille Recht Penner (Macmillan, 1991), a fascinating book that offers a wealth of information about the food preparation, cooking techniques, and home life of the Pilgrims.
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Close-Up on Cranberries
Pop-Up Cranberry Books
(Language Arts)
TIP
Make pop-up pumpkin books using an orange pumpkin-shaped template.
Invite children to make cranberry pop-up books to write in as they explore this traditional Thanksgiving fruit. Use coffee can lids as templates. Have children trace four circles on red construction paper, cut them out, stack them, and fold them in half. Open the pages and staple along the fold. Make the books stand up by spreading the pages apart.
Do the Cranberry Bounce!

(Math)
To harvest cranberries, farmers flood cranberry bogs with water. The berries float, making them easy to corral with large tools called booms. To check the berries for quality, cranberry processors bounce them! Each berry has seven chances to bounce over four-inch bounce boards. A badly bruised or rotten berry will not bounce. Students can test whether cranberries bounce by dropping them from a height of 12 inches next to a ruler and then measuring how high the berries bounce. Invite children to speculate about why the berries bounce. Then cut several berries in half for students to examine. Point out the hard cell walls around the air pockets inside. Explain that when these walls start to break down and soften, the berries will no longer bounce.
Cranberry Count-Up
(Math)
Divide the class into small groups and give each a one-pound bag of fresh cranberries. Let students pass around the bag and estimate the number of cranberries it holds. Have them record their estimates. Then ask students how they might find the actual number (count the berries one by one, count by 2s, 5s, 10s; fill a container, such as a 1/4 -cup measure, with berries, count the number of berries it holds, then find out how many 1/4-cup measures fill the bag, and so on). Let each group choose a method to use. Afterward, have each group compare its estimates with the results. Ask each group to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the method used. Also compare the number of berries in each bag. Can students account for the differences given that each bag weighs one pound?
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Craft Corner
(Art and Math)
Patterned Place Cards

Invite children to practice patterning while making festive place cards for their familys holiday table. Set out bowls of harvest foods. (Use the items left over from the Harvest Sort activity, page 7.) Give children each a paper cup to collect items they want to work with, and a paper plate. Have them experiment with making different patterns on their plate. Then provide 4- by 6-inch unlined index cards, glue, and crayons or markers. Have children fold the cards in half. Tell them to use the items to make a patterned border around one side of the card. Once they have decided on a pattern they would like to keep, have children glue the items onto their cards.
TIP
Check florists shops, garden centers, and grocery stores for flowers, vegetables, fruits, and other plants that would otherwise be thrown away. Send home a note requesting donations. Plant parts that work well include geranium petals, grass cuttings, spinach leaves, cranberries, tea leaves, coffee grounds, parsley, onion skins, red cabbage leaves, and beets.
Plant-Pigment Napkin Rings

(Art and Social Studies)
Its a popular notion that Pilgrims wore only dark, somber colors such as brown and black. In fact, red, blue, yellow, violet, and green are also among the colors they wore. The Pilgrims used flowers, leaves, roots, bark, nutshells, and berries to dye the yarn or fabric they made into clothing. Invite children to explore the natural pigments in plants as they make festive holiday napkin rings. Materials assorted plant parts (See Tip, left) plastic sandwich bags muslin or old white cotton pillowcases or sheets cut into 21/4- by 6-inch strips (use pinking shears or scalloped scissors for an interesting effect) cardboard bathroom tissue tubes, cut in half crosswise glue cotton swabs (optional) paper and pencil 1. Place a few pieces of one kind of plant in each plastic bag. Label each bag with the plants name. 2. Divide the class into groups. Give each group a few bags of plant samples. Ask children how they might find out what colors, if any, these plants produce (squeeze between fingers, rub on paper).
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3. Ask children to predict what color each plant might make. Will all the red plant parts produce red pigments? How about the green plants? After recording plant names and predictions, students can test the plant parts by rubbing them on their papers. 4. Bring students together to share their discoveries. What plants produced surprising colors? 5. Give students fabric strips and plant pigments to make napkin rings. Cotton swabs are useful for rubbing plant pigments into the cloth.When the fabric strips are dry, let children glue them onto bathroom tissue tubes.
Good-Deed Bead Necklaces

The Wampanoag Indians used wampumwhite and purple beads made from quahog (clam) shellsas symbols of power and authority. Wampum was later used as money. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, children can reward each other with a wampum bead each time they see a classmate perform a good deed. Good deeds might include sharing materials, helping a classmate clean up, and so on. To make purple wampum, fill a shallow pan halfway with water. Mix in several drops each of blue and red food coloring. Dip pasta (ditalini or penne work well) and let dry on paper towels. Help children cut lengths of yarn to tie loosely around the neck. Each time a child does a good deed, he or she can add a bead to the necklace!
Perky Turkey Puppet

(Art and Poetry)
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Children will giggle and gobble as they play with these delightful puppets. Enlarge and photocopy page 27 onto heavyweight paper (one per student). Or have each child glue the page onto half of a file folder and wait until dry. Let children color the patterns and then cut them out. (Children may need help cutting out the slots. Gently fold the paper at a right angle to the dotted lines. Then snip along the lines from the crease of the fold inward.) Model for children how to put the turkey together, following these diagrams. To make the turkey move its neck and flap its tail, pull on its feet.
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Pilgrim Hat Snack Holders

(Art)
Children will love making these simple snack holders to use in class or to bring home! Cut an empty bathroom tissue tube in half crosswise. Paint the outside black and let dry. Cut a 31/2-inch circle of black construction paper for the brim. Center the tube on the circle and glue or tape the crown in place. Add a white paper band. Fill with Harvest Trail Mix. (See page 8.)
Fact or Folklore? Turkey Teller

Invite children and their families to find out little-known factsand folkloreabout the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Let children make these turkey tellers to bring home and share on Thanksgiving Day. Enlarge and photocopy page 28 for each child. Have children cut out the pattern along the dotted lines. Tell them to place the pattern blank side up on a flat surface. Then model how to make the turkey tellers, following these diagrams:
Tape on a red yarn wattle.
How to Play Hold the turkey teller as shown. Have someone (the player) choose one of the numbers. Open and close the turkey teller that number of times. Then have the player look inside and choose a picture. Open and close the turkey teller the number of letters that spell the name of that picture (for example, if the picture is a fish, open and close it four timesF-I-S-H). Repeat the process. Then the player chooses another picture. Open the panel and read whats underneath. The player must say whether the statement is fact (true) or folklore (not true).
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Perfect Poetry
Pocket Chart Poetry Poster: I Can Hardly Wait!

(Language Arts)
Count down to Thanksgiving with your class by sharing this playful rhyme thats just right for emergent readers. Follow these steps to set up pocket chart activities with the poem (bound in the center of the book): 1. Laminate the poster or glue it onto a piece of lightweight cardboard. Cut apart the sentence strips and cards. Arrange the sentence strips in order in a pocket chart. Place the word, numeral, and picture cards at the bottom of the chart. Display a calendar opened to November. 2. A few days before Thanksgiving, look at the calendar with children. Together, count the number of days until Thanksgiving. Then ask children to name foods their families might eat on Thanksgiving Day. 3. Read aloud the poem to children. Invite a volunteer to select the appropriate word or numeral card to complete the first blank. If the child chooses the numeral card (3), ask the class if there is another card that shows the same number (three). 4. Continue reading, then let another child choose a word or picture card to complete the third line. 5. As a class, read the completed poem aloud. Then let children take turns choosing a favorite word or picture card to complete the third line. 6. Repeat the activity daily, up to the day before Thanksgiving. (On that day, use a self-sticking note to mask the s in the word days.) ..................... ......................
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Use childrens choices to make a Favorite Thanksgiving Foods graph. Remove the sentence strips and place the pictures side by side at the bottom of the pocket chart. Have children write their names on self-sticking notes.Then invite them to come up to the chart one by one and place their name above their favorite food. Next, invite children to analyze the data on the graph. Ask questions, such as: How many children like [stuffing] best? Which Thanksgiving food do most children like best? Least? How many more/fewer children prefer [turkey] than prefer [corn bread]?
After everyone has had a turn, place the pocket chart in a center and invite children to work with partners to put the poem together. Start the activity more than seven days before Thanksgiving. Make additional word and and numeral cards using index cards trimmed to size. Invite children to create different word or picture cards for other favorite Thanksgiving foods. Extend the activity by having children sort the foods into different groups (meats, vegetables, breads, and so on). Mix up a completed version of the poem so that the sentence strips are out of order. Let children come up to the chart and reorder the poem line by line.
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Song: Thanksgiving Day

(Music and Poetry)
Ask children to point out the rhyming words in the song. List each rhyming group on a separate sheet of chart paper.Then ask students to identify ways in which the words in each group are alike and different. For example, those, goes, and clothes all contain the long-o sound, but each word has a different spelling pattern. Use the lists to start rhyming word walls. Invite children to add to each list as they discover new rhyming words. (Students may also want to create personal mini word walls using the Turkey Stationery on page 32.) Point out the digraph th in Thanksgiving. Explain that this consonant pair stands for one sound. A digraph can appear at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word. Ask children to find other words in the song that begin with this digraph. (thanks, the, this, those, clothes, and with)
Children will love singing this song to the familiar tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. To perform the song, divide the class into five groups. Have the students in the first group join hands as they sing their verse. The second group then joins hands with the first group, and so on. When the last verse is sung, have everyone join hands to form a circle. Afterward, give children a chance to reflect on what they are thankful for by making a We Give Thanks collaborative banner (see below).
Celebrate. . the. . Holiday!. ................. ..... ................

We Give Thanks Collaborative Banner
(Writing)
This Thanksgiving banner is a delightful invitation to children to reflect on the holiday, read, write, and share! Make a copy of page 30 for each child. Read the prompt on the pattern page with your class. Let children use developmental spelling to write their responses on scrap paper. Children who are not yet writing can dictate their responses to you. Help children edit their work, copy the edited version onto the pattern page, and illustrate it with crayons, markers, or colored pencils. Let children help put the banner together by taping their pattern pages to the others. Display the banner on a bulletin board or wall, from the ceiling, or in the hallway. Or, instead of taping, simply clip the pages side by side on a clothesline strung across your classroom in an area thats away from traffic. Before children go home for the holiday, give them their completed page along with extra blank copies for family
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members. Suggest that children invite each of their family members to complete a pattern. The pages can then be used as festive and meaningful place mats for their holiday celebrations. (Suggest that children glue the completed patterns onto sheets of construction paper.)
Thanksgiving Memories Mini-Book

(Language Arts and Writing)
Students develop a sense of history by learning about holiday traditions celebrated today and in the past. Invite students to interview an older family member, such as a grandparent, or an older family friend about his or her Thanksgiving memories. Let children make and take home the mini-book on page 31. Consider making multiple copies so that children may interview several people. To make the book, cut out the pattern along the dotted lines. Fold along the solid lines so that the pages go from 1 to 4.
Turkey Stationery
(Writing)
The turkey stationery on page 32 can be used in myriad ways to build literacy. Stock a writing-paper bin with copies that students can use to write letters, stories, poems, journal entries, and class newsletters. Students can also use the sheets to create word lists, greeting cards, invitations, classroom displays, banners, and more.
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Sail on
FINISH
November 11, 1620 The Mayflower lands.
the Mayf lo we r !
Land ho! Go again.
No more fresh food. Miss 1 turn.
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You see a gull. Land is near! Move ahead 1 space.
The wind blows the ship off course. Move back 2 spaces.
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You mop the deck. Go again.
Align top of page 17 here and tape in place.
START
A strong wind is blowing. Move ahead 2 spaces.
October 1620 A storm hits! Move back 1 space.
You feel seasick. Miss 1 turn.
The ship has a leak! Miss 1 turn.
You use the stars to steer the ship. Go again.
You mend a sail. Go again.
There is no wind. Miss 1 turn.
September 6, 1620 The Mayflower sets sail.
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Pilgrim Trunk Pattern
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Name_________________________________________________________________
What. . Did. .the. . Pilgrims . .Pack?. ........ ...... .... .............. ........
What did the Pilgrims take with them to America? Cut out the pictures and put them in your trunk.
Water
Hot dogs and buns
Cradle
Computer
Clothing
Knife
Sword
Dried meat and fish, cheese, dried biscuits
Photo album
Phone
Iron pot
Axe
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The Pilgrims made wooden houses. The roofs were made of grass. They used oiled paper as windows because they had no glass.
Pilgrim House Pattern
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The Wampanoag lived in a wetu. It was where they made their home. They bent poles cut from trees to make its shape a dome.
Wetu Pattern
A Pilgrim Recipe:
Red Pickled Eggs

Serves 6
What You Need:
6 peeled, hard-boiled eggs 1 small beet 1 cup white vinegar 1 teaspoon salt
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teaspoon black pepper teaspoon red pepper
1 cup water
1. Wash dirt off the beet with a soft vegetable brush. Cut off the top. Then cut the stem so that only one inch of stem remains. 2. Mix the vinegar, salt, black and red pepper, and one cup water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Then turn off the heat. 3. Put the eggs and the beet into a heat-resistant glass jar or container with a lid. Pour the hot vinegar mixture over them. Safety Note: The mixture and the jar will be very hot! 4. Let the jar cool down. Stir gently with a wooden spoon. Cover the jar and refrigerate overnight. 5. In the morning, remove the beet from the jar. How have the eggs changed? 6. Slice the eggs in half and serve with salad.
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Recipe adapted from Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Manners by Lucille Recht Penner (Macmillan, 1991)
In spring, I give thanks for
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In winter, the Wampanoag give thanks for deer, turkeys, eels, and clams.
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In winter, I give thanks for

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In spring, the Wampanoag give thanks for herring, a kind of fish, and new plants that grow.
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In summer, I give thanks for
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In fall, the Wampanoag give thanks for squash, corn, string beans, nuts, and cranberries.
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In summer, the Wampanoag give thanks for berries and green corn.
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Perky Turkey Puppet
The turkey is a funny bird. Its head goes wobble, wobble. And all it says is just one word Gobble, gobble, gobble!
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Fact or Folklore? Turkey Teller
The Pilgrims wore only dark colors.
Pilgrim boys and girls both wore dresses.
Fact They thought bathing was unhealthy.
The Pilgrims only took baths a few times a year.
Folklore They often wore bright blue, red, green, and yellow.
Fact Boys wore dresses until about age 7.
Folklore No cowsbut there were at least two dogs.
Two cows sailed on the Mayflower.
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Folklore There was no popcorn at the feast. The Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving. Folkore Their hats had bands, but no buckles. Pilgrim men wore hats with buckles. Folklore It landed in Cape Cod Harbor. The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. Fact They used stale bread as a platethen ate it! The Pilgrims ate their plates.
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Thanksgiving Day
(Sing to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)
This is the day for giving thanks, Giving thanks, giving thanks. This is the day for giving thanks, We celebrate Thanksgiving! This is the day for thanking those Who give us food and give us clothes. This is the day a thank you goes To family on Thanksgiving! This is the day for thanking friends, On friendship, everyone depends. This is the day our thanks extend To friends on Thanksgiving! This is the day the Pilgrims ate, And with the Wampanoag shared their plate. This is the day we commemorate The very first Thanksgiving! This is the day to be sincere, Give thanks that we are here. In November every year We celebrate Thanksgiving!
Meish Goldish
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We Give Thanks
For family and friends, pie and turkey, too. Thanksgivings the time we say thank you! I am thankful for
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Which Thanksgiving do you remember most? Why? ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
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What was your favorite Thanksgiving food when you were a child?
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Thanksgiving Memories
My Name
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Turkey Stationery
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______ more days till Thanksgiving. I can hardly wait! I will have some _________________. It will be so great! Seven Six Five Four Three Two 7 2 5 4 3 6 One 1 stuffing apple cider turkey pie peas cranberries
mashed potatoes corn bread
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Patterned Place Cards

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Pilgrim Trunk Pattern

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Red Pickled Eggs

teaspoon black pepper teaspoon red pepper

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