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.

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This script takes your class on a journey from the time the Pilgrims were packing to travel to the final celebration with their Wampanoag friends.

The script is in a mini book form.

There are 10 characters:

Narrator

Master of the Ship

Crew

Pilgrim Dad, Mom, Boy, Girl

William Bradford

Squanto

Native Friends

The packet includes Name Cards for characters and suggested costumes.

Finally there are 5 activities that reflect on the journey.

Packing for the journey.

Emotions on the journey.

Mayflower Compact/Classroom Compact

Making words with Mayflower

Sequencing the Journey

The First Thanksgiving

 

Find it here.

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...

Find it here.

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.

The First Thanksgiving: Reader's Theater

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This script takes your class on a journey from the time the Pilgrims were packing to travel to the final celebration with their Wampanoag friends.

The script is in a mini book form.

There are 10 characters:

Narrator

Master of the Ship

Crew

Pilgrim Dad, Mom, Boy, Girl

William Bradford

Squanto 

Native Friends

There are 5 activities that reflect on the journey.

Packing for the journey.

Emotions on the journey.

Mayflower Compact/Classroom Compact

Making words with Mayflower

Sequencing the Journey

The packet also includes Name Cards for characters and suggested costumes.

The First Thanksgiving...An educational packet for the primary child.

This packet is designed specifically to help educate the primary child about the First Thanksgiving.

Book suggestions are ideal for getting a realistic look at the life of the two groups of Americans in our early country.

The packet has informational text about the First Thanksgiving.

There is a True/False page for assessment and a sequence page that could be used for assessment as well.

After reading and gathering facts students will make connections between THEIR life and the lives of the Americans long ago.

There is an informational text book comparing and contrasting the Colonial Americans with the Native Americans.  Think of it as how we are ALIKE yet DIFFERENT.

Students will create posters about a Colonial American child and a Native American child.

Students will use graphic organizers to recall facts about the First Thanksgiving.

Students will use graphic organizers to recall facts about what they are THANKFUL FOR.

Using the ideas they gathered they will prepare final writes.

There are class cover books for creating a class book.

Word work is also included.

Finally there are vocabulary words for posting and a data collection activity for your class.

Students can also make these adorable page topers to display their writing.

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