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.

GET READY!! St. Patrick's Activities and Crafts

Are you feeling lucky??!!

Pick this packet and you will have a months worth of exciting reading, writing and word work activities!!

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Look at this cute leprechaun and WANTED poster.

But my favorite is this little letter to the leprechaun.

There is informational text.

Graphic organizers for collecting facts and a T?F for assessment.

Pre Writes are available for preparing final writes.

Pages for final writes are differentiated.

I love the Reader's Theater.

Your class will love reading it and then preparing wishes and their spin on How To Catch a Leprechaun!

Look at these wonderful selections for read aloud literature and then comprehension activities to accompany them.

Word work is plentiful with colorful vocabulary cards and then word work activities.

And... GREEN things and a GREEN story!!

Polar and Arctic Animals

So many wonderful Arctic and Polar Animals.

This packet is filled  with crafts, suggested literature, activities, informational text and graphic organizers to support research for the primary child.

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Crafts for the classroom.

Suggested Literature

Informational Text for Walrus, Arctic Fox, Arctic Wolf, Seal, Polar Bear, Caribou, Moose, Snow Owl, Penguin, Arctic Hare, Orca Whale.

Students will also study the Inuit People who inhabit this area.

Graphic organizers for collecting information to report on.

Pages for reporting and mini booklets for reporting not shown.

Activities to support learning about these animals.

 True/False Fact/Opinion on penguins and polar bears.

A special study on the Inuit people.

Word work for studying vocabulary.

Kindergarten Sight Words

This packet is ideal in providing meaningful practice activities for sight words.

This is the kindergarten word list.

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Vocabulary Cards

 Practice sheet for individual words.

 Review sheets

Reading with the sight words.

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Kindergarten Word Work

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I love these pages to allow students opportunities to practice sight words.

By reading, printing, spelling and writing with them students will build confidence in working with each word.

August/September sight words include:  I  like   the   and   can   you   see   a

Students PRINT

Students SORT

Students MATCH

Students SPELL

Students WRITE

Notice how the activity pages and assessments continue to grow as words are introduced each week.

There are also vocabulary cards.  Color/Black and White

I like to have students color the card as the word is introduced and then place in on the word work ring.

At the end of the month a parent helper flashes the cards.

If the student can read the word it goes home in a baggie.

If not it remains on the ring for further practice.

There are weekly assessment sheets as well as the monthly.

These are perfect for parent teacher conferences as well as record keeping.

The packet ends with a game for partners.

I will be adding to this each month with new words.

August/September is also where COLOR WORDS are introduced.

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The color words are:

red, blue, pink, black, brown, purple, yellow, orange, green

There are color word cards and black and white for students to color.

A partner game is ideal for practice reading color words.

There are color posters and a number of activities.

These are the samples for red.

Every color has the same activities.

Print, spell, read and write.

For practice there is match us up, syllables, word search, read and color, and color the words.

There are assessment for the color words as well.

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