At the beginning of the month we read several books as background for the holiday. Students completed a picture story map of the first Thanksgiving.
"The Littlest Pilgrim" is a cute story about a little girl who wants to help out in any way she can, but everyone tells her she is just too little. The story has a sweet ending about friendship. We brainstormed ideas of how the little girl could have helped her family and wrote our advice to her. We also created a cute little Pilgrim girl to hold our work!
Another fun story was "The Great Turkey Race!" In this story the turkeys decide to have a field day to determine which one was the best turkey, hoping the farmer would pick that one for Thanksgiving. Little did the turkeys realize that the farmer wanted the turkey to eat!!! The boys and girls completed a sequence story summary and attached it to a very cute "athletic" turkey complete with sweatband and running shoes!.
One of everyone's favorite stories was "Run, Turkey, Run!! In this story the turkey overhears the farmer saying he wants a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. Consequently, the turkey takes off running and disguises himself as various farm animals. As a response activity the kiddos wrote their own stories about a turkey running away. It included learning about introduction sentences, using transition words (first, next, then, finally), and writing a conclusion to the story. This was a very challenging assignment, but I am proud to say that everyone did a great job on their original stories. I wish I could have shared them all with you!
"Turkey Trouble" had a similar theme. As a follow-up to this story, the boys and girls created a "wanted" poster complete with a turkey wearing a disguise and and "reward" to anyone finding the turkey.
We read many, many more stories about turkeys, pilgrims, and Native Americans to celebrate the season, too numerous to include here!
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