Gobble, Gobble Giveaway!
Posted by Diane Badden on 12 Nov 2010 | Posted in: Drawings and Giveaways, Holiday and Seasonal
Happy Friday, teachers! My calendar held a yummy surprise for me this morning: Thanksgiving Day is less than two weeks away. And this means it’s time for our first annual Gobble, Gobble Giveaway. To have your name entered in this book giveaway, simply share a favorite Thanksgiving-themed activity before the end of Monday, November 15. Together we’ll create a menu of favorite teaching ideas for celebrating turkey day. Gotta love that!
Have a great weekend!
Gobble, gobble,
Diane
PS: My third-graders loved this supersimple idea. Each morning I’d write a holiday-related word on the board and challenge them to make ten or more words using only the letters in the word.
feast: at, ate, eat, fat, sat, set, safe, tea, sea, seat
thankful: thank, tank, than, tan, fan, hat, hut, an, ant, aunt
harvest: hat, rat, vat, sat, set, rest, tea, vest, sea, rat
Pilgrims: rim, grim, limp, girls, rip, rig, slim, sip, is, grip
Squanto: nut, squat, ton, tan, sun, son, not, to, on, an
Congrats to our drawing winner, Cheryl!
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We make an edible turkey centerpiece to share at our Thanksgiving Feast. We use a honey dew or cantaloupe for the body, a pear for the head, raisins for the eyes and cut red pepper for the waddle and feet. Then the children thread wooden skewers with chunks of cheese and grapes to insert for the tail feathers.
We make cornbread, applesauce, butter, with parents help. Then we have a Thanksgiving Feast the next day with the foods we made and some turkey, venison, lobster, a few kernels of corn, other foods the Pilgrims may have eaten. We wear Pilgrim and Native American costumes. Chief Massosoit (our principal) surprises us with a visit, wearing the chief’s headress we made the week before. This finishes our study of the beginnings of the United States of America.
Teaching kindergarten truly brings out the exciting activities for all the holidays. We create many things throughout the month that cultivate in a Thanksgiving feast which we cook together in class the last day before our vacation. The students also predict and graph if they they like eating turkey. We will be making turkey centerpieces for the children to take home to add to their Thanksgiving table decorations. Gobble Gobble to all!
I also do the turkey with the different colored feathers trick. We will also be making picture frames that the students will be able to put a photograph of something they are thankful for.
I love this time of year…..tons of holiday fun! I set up a teepee in my classroom. My husband made a frame for me and then I cover it with brown kraft paper and burlap over that layer. The kids design Native American paintings on muslin and when they are dry I rough stitch them onto the burlap. It is large enough for 2 kiddos to sit in it with room. They use it to read or play games like memory or file folders. The kids love it!
Also, some of their favorite activities are: the Turkey Trot (like Hokey Pokey), the Thanksgiving Word Wall, Turkey Feather Math (small paper plates I colored brown and drew on eyes, beak and wattle…they use colored plastic clothes pins to make math problems. For exampe, 3 blue ‘feathers’ + 2 pink ‘feathers’= 5 ‘feathers’.). I also do the Family Turkey project where each family decorates their construction paper turkey in creative disguises. We wrap up the month with a Stone Soup Thanksgiving Feast with 2 of the other classrooms. Everyone adds alittle something to the feast and we all give thanks for various blessings…family, friends, pets, toys, ect.
I read a story and tell students about The First Thanksgiving. Then I have students cut out pictures of foods that were eaten at the first Thanksgiving and glue them to a small paper plate. We compare and contrast the foods. We also write about Thanksgiving foods using describing words. I have a handout where students have to circle foods that were eaten and the pictures include foods that weren’t at the first Thanksgiving like ice cream.
I teach Pre-School and each year at Thanksgiving we color or paint a Thanksgiving picture to give to the residents at our Elderly Housing Apartments. Weather permitting we walk to the apartments and tape the pictures on each door. If the residents are home, sometimes we sing a short song and then wish them a “Happy Thanksgiving!” The residents just love seeing the children! We also do this at Christmas and Easter.
I have my First Graders write a Thank-you note to the helpers in our school. They tell them why they’re thankful for them in one or two sentences.They color the picture (frame for the thank-you note),and hand-deliver the note to their special recipient.
Fun for all concerned!
We turn our room into a thanksgiving haven. We put pumpkin pie filling out for the sensory table. I have the kids paint with turkey feathers to native american music. We enjoyu a lunch with the parents that is a turkey feast that the kids help make.
I teach preschool 3-5 year olds. Every year we do a social service project. This year we are making center pieces which will be donated to the Senior Citizens facilities near us. I t is a great way to teach sharing to the little ones and the seniors get to enjoy something cute on their table for Thanksgiving.
I teach VPK and each year I ask them how they would cook a turkey. Boy do you get some interesting answers. We make this into a book and share with parents. I also send home a feather shape on card stock and have the children decorate and bring back in to dress Tom Turkey.
Make a turkey to display on a wall without the tail feathers. Cut out different colored feathers and have the children write something that they are grateful for on the feathers. Put the feathers on the turkey and see how many things your students are grateful for.