Thanksgiving Feast!

Wow, what an amazing day we had on Friday! Our Kindergarten team got together and planned an awesome Thanksgiving Feast for our kids, and they loved it! It's been a few years since we've been able to gather together as a whole grade level for this activity. But, this year elementary schools start later, which means that lunch times start later and the cafeteria was available for our feast.

The kids started by singing a cute song about the first Thanksgiving...

Then, we feasted!

It was a lot of fun and the kids really enjoyed themselves! It was a great way to round out our Thanksgiving unit! This week we are off from school for some well-deserved rest! When we get back next week, we have 3 1/2 weeks until Christmas break and those weeks will be jam-packed with Gingerbread and Christmas Fun! Can't wait! :)

Thanksgiving Fun!

We are having some Thanksgiving Fun in class this week! Today we had fun with two math activities that the kids loved! First, we played a turkey Roll & Color game... now, I don't know what it is about Roll & Color, but my kiddos LOVE it! Some have even asked if they could play during developmental center time. Hmmm... I would have never guessed that Roll & Color can be more appealing than blocks or painting!

Oh, and see that orange piece of felt in the picture above? It's the PERFECT way to keep the noise level down when using dice in your classroom! We also graphed our favorite Thanksgiving foods! We read "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie" and talked about the Thanksgiving foods she ate, as well as brainstormed other foods not included in the book. Then, I gave the kids 4 options to choose from (any more would have overwhelmed my group)... they colored their choice, cut it out, and then placed it on the correct spot on our class graph.

We had a tie for the food that was the most favorite as well as the food that was the least favorite!

You can grab these activities, and a bunch more, in my Thanksgiving packets!

What fun Thanksgiving activities are you doing this week?

Turkey Writing Fun!

We had a great time writing about turkeys in class today! My kids seem to be stuck on calling them chickens, though! :) We'll just have to spend more time reading books about turkeys so that they can remember that turkeys are different from chickens. :) During our writing block, we worked together on a tree map to describe turkeys... I projected a copy with the document camera and we brainstormed together as a group. I gave each of my kiddos their own tree map to follow along with mine...

After completing our tree maps, I showed them how to use the words from the map to form sentences about turkeys. They did an awesome job!!

I was so proud of how hard they worked on this! I used this as a guided writing activity where they had a lot of support from me. But, if your kiddos are older or more advanced, you could let them fill in the tree maps themselves with words of their choosing. Either way, though, this is great practice using a graphic organizer to brainstorm during writing time!

Visit my TpT store to grab this fun turkey writing freebie to use with your kids! :)