What a
terrific Thanksgiving with my family!
This time of year really makes me think about all that we have to be
thankful for. We traveled to South
Carolina to visit my husband’s family and now we are back home. As you can see, I am back in “school-mode”.
We began
our nonfiction reading and writing unit before the Thanksgiving holidays. It was a perfect time to spend talking and
learning about Turkeys. Here are a few
of the things I used to help teach about turkeys:
(Turkeys-can, have, are)
Free Thinking Map on TPT:
Wild About Turkeys-Reading and Writing Informational
Texts
It does
cost $5.50 but is well worth it! My
reluctant readers said, “Can you please get more of these?”
This
unit has 3 different levels of turkey instruction. Since I teach gifted kids as well as
struggling learning, it helped me to differentiate among my students. The kids LOVED going on a scavenger hunt
while learning about turkeys. We put the
scavenger hunt in the hallway and let our students answer the questions while
reading and learning about turkeys. This
was also a good introduction about to how to write informational writing!
Here are
a few books that I used to help teach about turkeys:
All
About Turkeys-by
Jim Arnowsky
Kindle Edition (for Smart board)-Turkeys! Learn
About Turkeys and Enjoy Colorful Pictures-It is 99 cents but worth the buy.
Cute read-alouds!
Turk and Runt-by Frank Ansley
Twas the Night Before
Thanksgiving-Dav
Pilkey
Other books that I use to teach
about Thanksgiving:
Thanksgiving Is-by Gail Gibbons
Please let me know if you have
any other cool “turkey” ideas!
