Thanksgiving

Life Goal: Make a basic children's Thanksgiving Book that tells the truth and teaches what actually needs to be taught.

For now, I use paper dolls/ magnetic visuals to help tell my favorite story: THANKSGIVING! Here's the lesson I've adapted from Harcourt Social Studies book (2nd grade). I modify the words for what I want Kindergarteners to know. Until I sit down and specify what exactly I think is super important, I use this script. 

Click here to view my Thanksgiving Packet

Also included in this packet are directions on 

• How To Make Pumpkin Pie in a Cup!

• We make this in our classroom and then "sail" on the Mayflower over to another classroom who is dressed as the Native Americans. We share food and have a feast :)  Have I mentioned I love Thanksgiving?

• I've also included a basic "I am thankful for" paper with beautiful border, in both English & Spanish!

• Also a list of traditional Thanksgiving foods .... and a spot to write the Spanish translation (great for Spanish teacher or ESOL teachers..I used this in Spain).

Read my blog post about when I used these activities while teaching in Avila, Spain! Click Here 

As great as it was to be in Spain during Thanksgiving, nothing beats America around Thanksgiving time.

The Three Little Pigs

For our FOLKTALE unit, we read many different versions of the same folk tale. We started this week off with The Three Little Pigs. We focused on how readers remember the order of events in the story. To practice this, we taped the scenes in order.

I've realized there's a lack of sequence picture cards out on the internet, so I used my artistic talents to create my own sequence cards for 3 of the 3 little pigs books :) They are available on my TpT site in both black & white and color.

Download the Sequencing Events Cards

The Three Little Pigs & The Somewhat Bad Wolf

The Three Little Tamales

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

They were all a hit! Here's what our chart looks like. We'll be voting for our favorite on Monday :) 

I'll huff, and I'll puff.....and I'll blow your house down!