Happy thanksgiving

Our turkeys made it safely past Thanksgiving thanks to their disguises. You can find the turkey pattern and letter home to parent from Mrs. Nelson. I love doing this activity after reading Turkey Trouble.

Here is our Bulletin board

We read If  You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and did this activity inspired by Deanna Jump.

We learned that Pilgrims had many chores. We made a circle map of chores at home and school and completed the sentence prompt below.

Here is our treasured work wall

Here is one of our Jazzy journals from KinderbyKim.

We wrote a three step how to from Deanna Jump and made coffee filter turkeys

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We practiced reading and writing number words with this cute craft inspired by Julie Lee.




We learned that Pilgrims traveling on the Mayflower could only bring one trunk with them. We did this craft inspired by Cara Carroll.




Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with loved ones.

what we did in November

I back from my blogging hiatus. I haven't checked up on the blog world in over a week. That is a long time for me. November flew by. I crammed all the holiday goodness in. I got to do everything I wanted to do except for the adorable pilgrims from Jennifer over at First Grade Blue Skies. Just couldn't muster the energy to cut any more patterns.

We read I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie and wrote text to self connections, "If I were the old lady, I would swallow. . ." Love this craftivity from Cara Carroll over at The First Grade Parade. Darling!

I did these last year with my kiddos and again this year. The writing prompt can be found in Deanna Jump's Thanksgiving math and literacy unit. I traced each child's shoe to make the turkey body.

3 step how to writing and coffee filter turkeys

Pilgrim boys and girls

They had to make their own hair, eyes, mouth, and nose using construction paper from our scrap box.

Pilgrim girls and Pilgrim boys compare and contrast

now and then compare and contrast

Native Americans writing and craftivity.

The writing prompt says, "The Native Americans taught the Pilgrims how to . . ." This idea came from Deanna's website under November.

 

10 little Indians writing and craftivity from Julie Lee's blog. We sang this over and over again changing out Indian for Pilgrim, and Wampanoag.

Cut a sentence activity using the sentence "The Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower." This was seen on Deanna's blog last November. 

Mayflower Tree map

the kids charted . . .

why they sailed

who sailed

what is was like

yes this is huge! Also from Deanna.

We made long legged turkeys. You can find the instructions and poem in Deanna's Thanksgiving unit.

Here are some of the books we read for enjoyment and to build new learning.

Happy weekend!