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Two Thanksgiving Dinner Activity Packs...plus lots free!

11/23/2016

Thanksgiving dinner hands-on literacy centers for preschool

THANKSGIVING Dinner Literacy Centers
Make engaging, differentiated and practical Literacy Centers using the theme of Thanksgiving Dinner foods.

Contents:

Set of 12 color Thanksgiving food cards for: matching, vocabulary, concentration and a Read or Write the room activity.
Set of 12 b/w Thanksgiving cards for: matching, vocabulary, concentration and a Read or Write the room activity.
Word wall picture/vocabulary strips, use in pocket chart
Recording page for Read/Write the Room with dotted words to trace
Recording page for Read/Write the Room with a line to write word
Emergent reading booklet to make, with labeled b/w pictures
Emergent reading booklet to make, with vocabulary words – children draw pictures
Large cut-out pictures of 12 foods
Labels for the foods
Full page picture of a plain table for small group game or center
Printable to draw a picture of Thanksgiving food
Full-page Thanksgiving placemat, in both color, and b/w.

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Thanksgiving theme centers, activities and printables for preschool and pre-K

Thanksgiving Food Centers and Activities

The teaching theme focus for this packet is Thanksgiving, with the emphasis on Thanksgiving traditional food. This is the second of 2 units about Thanksgiving. The other unit focuses on the story of Thanksgiving.

Besides the activities, songs, stories and games listed for the day, this pack includes these centers and printables:

Set of large food manipulatives for games, vocabulary, flannel board etc.
Math mats – count sets of Thanksgiving foods onto a mat. Print as many mats as you need, write a number in the box on each one.
Make an emergent reader “At Thanksgiving, We Eat…”
Cut and paste - counting food items.
Center - What was it before it was dinner? cards set. Match the pairs.
Play dough mats (2) – add vegetables to dinner plate, and fruit to cornucopia.
Cut and paste activity – My Yummy Dinner – Choose five of the offered food items and paste them on a plate background. Promote discussion about likes and dislikes.
Upper case alphabet letters flashcards
Decorate a placemat for dinner (color and b/w)
"I am thankful for ..." printables (3)
Categorizing center - traditional Thanksgiving food/not traditional

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Cornucopia coloring page

Thanksgiving coloring poster

Cornucopia connect-the-dots printable

Thanksgiving themed oral language coloring pages (12)

What are you having for dinner? - draw the food.

Thanksgiving turkey themed large alphabet letters, upper and lower case.

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THANKSGIVING - Introducing the history to preschoolers

11/20/2016

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Thanksgiving - introducing the history to preschoolers with hands-on activities

This is a set of activities to introduce the concept of the celebration of Thanksgiving to young children - older toddlers and preschoolers.

Included:
• Informational booklet in color. Read booklets to a small group, or individual child. Expand on the words appropriate to the developmental level of your group. Encourage questions, conversation and discussion.
• Informational booklet in b/w.
• Interactive cut and paste booklet activity. This is directed. Cut out the pictures for those not cutting yet.
• Stick puppets to re-tell the story.

I wanted to introduce Thanksgiving in a simple way to my toddler grandson, and could not find anything simple and engaging enough to capture his interest. So I created this resource. He was drawn in immediately, following the story and asking questions. I understand that this is not how the real history happened and evolved, but it presents enough of a positive framework on which to build later stories, questions and discoveries.

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Fill the Thanksgiving turkey themed 10-frames with manipulatives such as pom poms, counters or playdough. Recognize numbers and count sets 0-10.

$Pumpkin pie fractions – half, quarter, and eighth. Make a center, or an individual cut and paste activity.$

Pumpkin pie fractions – half, quarter, and eighth. Make a center, or an individual cut and paste activity.

$Pumpkin pie fractions b/w – half, quarter, and eighth. Make a center, or an individual cut and paste activity.$

Pumpkin pie fractions b/w – half, quarter, and eighth. Make a center, or an individual cut and paste activity.

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Two Thanksgiving Dinner Activity Packs...plus lots free!

FREE downloads of the (Thanksgiving) day...

THANKSGIVING - Introducing the history to preschoolers

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