Here’s a fun way to practice simple addition. Color the sections of the turkey based on the answer to the math fact written inside the section. It’s about the right level for kindergarten or first grade. Click here for the free printable PDF: Thanksgiving Color by Number- simple addition PDF Enjoy!
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Have a safe and spooky Halloween!
I’m always looking to incorporate goofy or holiday things into my lessons. So when I saw this, I just had to snap a photo! One teacher paired Halloween monsters with writing and art to teach alliteration. Each student first chose a letter and used only words starting with that letter to describe a monster they had made of construction paper. I’m not exaggerating when I say this was one of the most fun bulletin boards I’ve ever seen… not to mention it’s a way fun Halloween writing project!
Here’s a cool Halloween art project I saw. Students use watercolor paint and principles of color hues to show what moonlight looks on a spooky night. The teacher provided students with a die-cut of the spooky house (or you could make copies of clip art and let students cut out the printed haunted house) and had students paint/draw in their own spooky trees once the paint had dried. Cool!
Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to meet or be friends with a real Pilgrim? Well, after introducing life in Plymouth, Massachusetts, students can answer this question and practice writing skills at the same time. Here’s a really simple activity:
1. Print the coloring page to the left (right click, choose “save image as” so you can save it to your computer and resize it later). You can print one for the whole class to look at or one for each student if you’d like.
2. Help the students brainstorm things they know about pilgrims. What are their names? What do they do everyday? What was their life like before they came to America?
3. Assign each student to write a character description of these two Pilgrims. Then color in the picture (if you gave one to each student).
4. Display the projects proudly for all to see!
Another excuse to bring turkeys into your classroom: odd vs. even numbers! This is a great practice page for first or second grades. Click here for the free printable PDF: Odd turkey worksheet PDF Gobble Gobble!
Thanksgiving is around the corner, so it’s time to bring out the turkeys! And after all, who doesn’t love adjectives!? This page is appropriate for first or second grade. Click here for the free worksheet: Turkeys Love Adjectives Worksheet PDF Enjoy!
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My mom raised 4 kids, so we ended up getting a pretty good collection of Halloween junk (you know those small pumpkin buckets people fill with candy, window clings we never even used, stickers my mom had gotten during the after-Halloween sale, etc). One summer, we went through all our holiday boxes (everything from Christmas and Valentine’s Day to St. Patrick’s and 4th of July) and found tons of stuff that was still good that we weren’t ever going to use and wasn’t worth holding on to for the future grandkids. So we came up with a brilliant plan… use them to fill the “treasure chest” in my mom’s classroom! We had so much stuff from all the holidays that she gave out tons of prizes all the time for good behavior and she didn’t have to buy anything from teacher catalogs or Oriental Trading Company for an entire year! So ask around… see if anyone has unused (or slightly used, depending on the item) stuff they’d like to donate to your classroom!
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