This post includes 50 Thanksgiving and November writing prompts for K-5 students: 22 opinion, 15 informational, and 13 narrative—organized by type for easy use in any elementary classroom. The prompts…
November builds toward Thanksgiving quickly, and these Thanksgiving classroom crafts give you options for keeping students focused while still bringing the season into the room. You will find thankfulness crafts,…
A week of Thanksgiving writing does not have to mean a stack of blank pages. The Thankful Flapbook is a low-prep Thanksgiving writing activity where 2nd and 3rd grade students…
Thanksgiving is one of the best times to bring science into the classroom. I’ve put together 26 experiments and activities organized into Physical Science, Earth Science, Life Science, and STEAM…
A fun Thanksgiving Craft that helps kids think about why they are thankful. The craft can last all month long as kids add a leaf each day with a thankful idea. Includes a graphic organizer and multiple templates. #thanksgivingcraft #thankfultree
This elementary Thanksgiving unit helps students understand the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving and gives them tools to make connections between those events. By the end of the…
Describe the connections between historical events is a Common Core Standard that is hard to teach! Here is how I taught this standard with the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving. Through this unit, students asked and answered questions, we made a timeline, we read great books, AND we figured out the connection between historical events.
Asking and answering questions can be hard for students! We set up a routine where students would write 6 questions and other students would answer those six questions. This was the perfect way for me to monitor whether students could ask and answer questions about any topic! Here is how we applied it to Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving history timeline activities help students keep the story together across multiple read-alouds. When students can see the events arranged chronologically — from Plymouth, England to the first harvest —…