The First Thanksgiving

 

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This interactive resource is ideal for support students to discover the background of Thanksgiving and collaborate on why we continue to celebrate it.

Below are outstanding pieces of children's literature to share with your class.

Slide One:  The First Thanksgiving...Informational Text about the voyage...What I learned?

Slide Two:  The First Thanksgiving...Informational text about when they landed...Let's Write!

Slide Three:  The First Thanksgiving...Informational text about the celebration...True/False

Slide Four:  Informational Text about the meal...Compare and Contrast to Today

Slide Five:  Timeline of events

Slide Six:  Create the perfect Thanksgiving dinner for YOU

Slide Seven:  I am thankful for...

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This resource contains a mini book with informational text and activities related to the First Thanksgiving as well as a mini book with informational text and activities related specifically to the Colonial and the Native Americans.

Kiddos will actively compare and contrast the lives of these two groups as well as compare how they lived to how the students live today.

Following the stories ...

The First Thanksgiving sequencing...read,cut, and paste

Compare...life in the past to today

Compare...travel on the Mayflower to today

Digging for details using informational text

Prewrite...The First Thanksgiving

Final Copy...The First Thanksgiving

Reading for details...true/false

Interactive Posters on Native and Colonial Child

Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer

Alike Yet Different...write and illustrate

Data Collection

Word Search

ABC Order

Parts of Speech

Vocabulary for Posting

Making Words...The Mayflower

Craft...I Am Thankful...

This packet has 5 reading suggestions that fit perfectly with the activities.