Learning Color Words Turkey Style Freebie

 

If your kiddos are learning how to read color words (or just need a little practice), you will love this adorable color word turkey from Kathy Griffin!

The best part? It's a freebie!

Click here to get the Color Word Practice - Turkey Style freebie

Thanksgiving Odd and Even Color By Number Turkey FREEBIE

I just love this adorable Thanksgiving color by number page from Squarehead Teachers. It requires kids to determine if a number is in a certain number range and then if it’s odd or even. This will be perfect for your Thanksgiving lesson planning! Click here for the free printable PDF: Turkey color by number- sort odd-even   Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Common and Proper Nouns Freebies

If you are working on learning about proper and common nouns (or just need a bit of review) you will love these freebies from Squarehead Teachers. These worksheets focus on identifying proper and common nouns. This free worksheet is appropriate for 2nd grade and up. Click here for the first free printable PDF: Thanksgiving common vs proper nouns PDF  

 Click here for the second free PDF: Thanksgiving common vs proper nouns 2

Thanksgiving Mad Libs Freebie

I absolutely LOVED Mad Libs when I was a kid, and I am happy to say that my kids love them too. I think it is a great way to sneak in some grammar skills while having some fun.  I love this Thanksgiving Mad Libs freebie from My Sister's Suitcase ! I think it will be a great activity for the boys to do while we are waiting to eat our yummy feast on Thanksgiving.  I bet it would be a great activity in your house as well!

Thanksgiving Mad Libs

Thanksgiving ABC Order Freebie

I found an adorable alphabetizing activity with a Thanksgiving theme for you to use with your kiddos this week!  This freebie is a color, cut, and paste activity that includes a Thanksgiving theme where students place Thanksgiving words in ABC order.


Thanksgiving ABC Order

History of Native Americans

Thanksgiving is a great time to learn more about Native American cultures and their history.  You might want to check out this short video from National Geographic Kids that will teach your child a little bit about Native American History in the United States and Canada.

Native American History video

Road Trip Learning

Many people will be embarking on road trips this Thanksgiving holiday to visit family and friends.  You can use your road trip to add to your child's learning!

Add up the signs

You can use the distances on signs to practice key operational skills such as adding and subtracting.  Have them add up the distances such as in the sign above - they could add 46 + 107.  Or they could subtract as well.

Find a Word
Use a word from a road sign - such as Sacramento - how many words can they find? 
Sacramento (rent, ram, meant, to, etc.)

Take a tally
Have your child practice tallying up the things they see.  They could tally the # of trucks, stop signs, etc.  Make it an extra challenge for your older kiddos by asking them additional questions - What percentage of those trucks were Fed Ex trucks?

ABC Find it
Have your child look for all of the letters in the alphabet on road signs or license plates.

What other ideas can you think of?

Learn How To Say Thank You In 45 Different Langauges

While not every country celebrates Thanksgiving, there is a way to say "Thank You" in every language.  Here are just a few:

When You Meet A Turkey Reader

I love this little When You Meet a Turkey Reader!  Print out the pages, then print out seven turkeys here for your child to color and paste into the book.  The last page is here.

The Turkey and The Pumpkin Reading Comprehension

If you are looking for a little extra reading for the fall holidays for your kiddos, you may want to have them read (or read to them) The Turkey and the Pumpkin which you can find here. The short story is about a turkey who runs away because he doesn't want to be carved for Thanksgiving dinner only to meet a little pumpkin who really wants to be carved for Halloween. 

The Turkey and the Pumpkin.pdf

Here are a few comprehension questions to ask your child after reading:

1. Why do you think Oscar wanted to go to the petting zoo?

2. Why was the little pumpkin originally happy to see Oscar?

3. How did the zoo keeper change in the story?