Thanksgiving Fun and a FREEBIES!

Well, it was a short fast week for us!  We managed to throw in some fun centers!  These centers you can find in my Happy Thanksgiving Pack at my tpt store.  Keep reading for more ideas and a couple of FREEBIES!  

They loved this one!  I added colored dots to match the feathers to make it easier for my kids to build the words.

If you bought my unit, make sure you download the revised one...there's a "goof" on this one...do you see it?

I fixed it and revised it!

I always love how these turn out each year!  We've been talking about symmetry so we designed these cool shirts for our Native American friends.  

This center was a HIT!  They caught the turkey with a fishing pole and then bingo dotted the matching letter.

Teacher Tip:  Instead of paper clips which always get pulled off from the fishing pole, just simply staple the corner of the game piece and it works perfect!  Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!

This sheet is a FREEBIE for you at the end of this post.

I saw this fun idea on pinterest from kidscount1234.com

This is under my reading loft...the kids lay under it and "look at the stars" then they can write the words they read...it's fun because it dark under my loft so it creates a "nighttime like" feel!

 Here are a few more pages to our Thanksgiving fact book...

If you grab these freebies give me a little love...in comments please!  :)

Catch That Turkey

Starry Sight Word Hunt

My Gingerbread Unit is almost done!

Symmetry Indians

We made a larger version of the TLC indian and added a symmetrical design to his shirt.  The kiddos have really caught on to symmetry so they loved creating their own designs.  We also added a fact.  Check out a few of them below!

Indians, Pilgrims, and Turkeys, Oh My!

We are having so much fun learning about the Pilgrims coming to America and the Native Americans being friendly to the Pilgrims.  I wanted to go ahead and post a few things that are going on instead of waiting until Thanksgiving Break.  Your child will bring home a Thanksgiving Fact Book.  Please take a minute to sit down and read the book together.  

We are learning to read and write our number words and this gave us some practice.  We used the poem 10 Little Indian Boys.

This month we also are learning about fractions.  We made these cute fraction indians.

During small groups we matched letters for beginning sounds to the pictures on our turkey's feathers.

We rolled a cube to see who could make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving Dinner first.

They had listen for the beginning sound to know where to place their ingredients.

They chose an object out of the bucket and found the letter that matched the beginning sound.  Then, they bingo dotted that letter on their paper.

They rolled the die, wrote the number and drew that many feathers.

I got this idea called "Pluck the Feathers" from a friend, Mrs. Estes.  The children use a timer to see how many feathers they can pluck.  After they count, they record that number on their paper.

Since we are learning our number words, they had to match the pilgrim's number to the number word.  Next, they found the number on their paper (they are mixed up) wrote the number word, and colored it to match.

We filled our cornucopia with nutritious fruits and veggies, but we had to match the picture to the word using beginning sounds, and then we had to count and write the number.  Math and Literacy in one!