Thanksgiving Activities

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How to Teach Your Child Gratitude | Looking for fun activities to teach your children how to be grateful both in the classroom and at home? Check out this collection of 17 gratitude activities for kids and families! Complete with random acts of kindness and other simple ideas to teach your kids how to be grateful and appreciative, these thankful activities are perfect for Thanksgiving and beyond!

How to teach gratitude into the classroom. Great for November or for any time.

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Young writers take on the perspective of a turkey in this creative writing exercise.

This Thanksgiving, serve up some Thanksgiving science learning and find out all about the chemicals that make up a typical Thanksgiving meal.

It’s all things Pigeons and Pilgrims in my classroom and this week we had some Pigeon fun, Thanksgiving-style! My class had a blast with this little twist on disguise-a-turkey and we made these Pigeon persuasive writing booklets from The Turkey Wants a Hot Dog! Poor Tom Turkey is trying not to get eaten on Thanksgiving! […]

[image] As Thanksgiving approaches, don’t miss the opportunity to offer your students an educational and creative approach to the holiday! Resources Articles Thanksgiving Writing Prompts to Kick-off the H…

This You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving Lesson Plan is suitable for 3rd - 8th Grade. Students examine the facts and myths that surround the "First Thanksgiving" (the harvest celebration of 1621) at Plimoth Colony. They study the role that historians play in the collection and dissemination of history and use their knowledge of the "First Thanksgiving" to create a museum exhibit of their own.

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to help kids learn the values of being thankful, giving & showing gratitude. Here are a few free lesson plan ideas [my Thanksgiving gift to all of you who work …

Teach children gratitude with these great ideas including a list of 30+ activities to help your family shown gratitude together.

It's that time of year again! Time for our traditional Gratitude Turkey! We started it during Family Home Evening this week as we talked about what it means to be grateful. It's also a perfect activity to go with our "Turkey" Preschool theme for the week. **We've done this Thanksgiving tradition for the past few years. Here are links to the ones we've posted in the past: 2010: 2011: Here's how we made this year's Turkey: Using a piece of brown scrapbook paper (ours was polka-dotted), cut out…

Use these Thanksgiving activities to get in the spirit of the holidays while brushing up on needed math skills. It will give students a chance to see that the math they learn is used in the real world. Take advantage of the holiday season to teach students about using math when cooking, and do some fun activities with them.