Thankful Turkeys

 Here is a cute and easy turkey for kids to make.  If you click on the picture a template for the feathers and body are provided.  I let the kids make the feet and beak themselves using orange construction paper.  I think those little touches help make each one unique and cute.  I read the book Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks before making the turkeys.  Then we come up with something we are thankful for to write on each feather.  I have the students write in pencil and then after I have checked over their work they can trace in black marker.  Happy Thanksgiving!

 

                                        

Turkey Time

We read the book Run, Turkey, Run and then came up with ideas of how a turkey could disquise himself so the farmer would not beable to find him.  This would work with any Thanksgiving book about a turkey not wanting to be eaten.  Click on the link below for a free copy of this activity.

                               

 

                                         

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Run-Turkey-Run-966266

Winter Bulletin Board Ideas

I wanted to do a winter bulletin board to hang out in the hall for a while.  I used a circle punch to cut out lots of white circles.  Then I assigned each student three sight words to write out on the snowmen.  We are going to go out in the hall and count how many sight words we can read/write.

For math we are working on addition so I used a die cut of a Christmas tree and the kids balled up tissue paper for the ornaments.

This was my November bulletin board.  We have been working on short vowel word families, each child was assigned a word family and on each feather they had to write a word from that particular word family.  On the turkey's clothes the word family chunk was written.  We went out in the hall and count how many words we could read and write as a class!