Thanksgiving Activities In Your Classroom

 

The Spirit of Thanksgiving in the Classroom

Ways to Include Thanksgiving Into Your Classroom

Thanksgiving is coming and here are some of the fun and thoughtful ways to bring in holidays into your classroom that your students will enjoy.

One of the most engaging ways to learn at school, for both teachers and students, is celebrating holidays in the classroom. The month of November is short due to the holidays coming up, which also creates a busy time at school and home. Yet you want to make this time fun and academic for your students.

This is a great time to teach gratitude, kindness, friendship, and community. I have attached an activity you can do with your students. Click on this link if you are wanting Thanksgiving Classroom Activities.

Do this side whole group. Have students discuss in groups what each of these words means. Then discuss ways they can and do show each of these qualities. Write some of these on the board. Then give them time to fill out the graphic organizer.

You can print the pages front to back or on separate pages. You have 2 choices for printing on the backside. Your students can draw and label or draw and write. Allow them time to do this.

If you are wanting to study some of the histories behind Thanksgiving you can do a webquest. Scholastic has several good activities to choose from. Click on the link.

Host a canned/boxed food drive and donate the food items to the neighborhood Food Bank.

Do an acrostic poem using the letters in the word Turkey.

Brainstorm words that begin with the sound of each letter in Thanksgiving.

Have some Kindergarten Math fun with this packet!

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What about FAll themed Picture Prompts for those 1st and 2nd graders??

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There is so much more you can do with your students. Thank you for following me and reading my newsletters.

May you have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving!

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