A Plump and a Perky Turkey

We are working on contractions this week.  The book below uses a lot of contractions.

We made continuations of the story above by writing a sentence that started with a contraction.

I found many different ways to make turkey's on the internet.  I made a copy of each type of turkey and had the kids draw to find out which type of turkey they would make.  I gave them the materials needed and left it up to them to create.  They really surprised me. Below are some examples.

Magazine turkey, sack turkey, watercolor turkey....

Marker turkey, hat turkey, thumbprint turkey...

Hand turkey, paper plate turkey, fan turkey.

Columbus Day

We looked at non-fiction books about different places in the world.  The kids had to find things they like from the captions in the book.

I found this pattern at www.wildaboutfirsties.blogspot.com

Turkey in disguise

We started by reading "The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog."

I found this pattern at www.wildaboutfirsties.blogspot.com

We wrote persuasive paragraphs trying to convince people to have hot dogs instead of turkey for Thanksgiving.

Mayflower, ahoy!

Found this cute little boat at www.thetoymaker.com

We are thankful for God's creation

We tied the creation chapter in with Thanksgiving.

Goldilocks

The boys made the bears and the girls made the girl.  I got the pattern from www.glyphgirls.com 

The firsties had to pretend they were Goldilocks and write a letter of apology.