This month we want to share some of our favorite songs and activities for the month of November to help you get inspired and excited for your next month of teaching!

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The book “The Family” is a great example of a paper book that awards opportunity to provide strategic practice with text. To make this book, simply copy pages 1 and 2, 3 and 4 on the back of each other, cut in half and collate. Copy page 8 and cut in half to make the last page of the book and a blank outside cover.

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Thanksgiving Songs and Fingerplays for November

November and is a great month to celebrate family, friends, food and gratitude.

Using songs and finger plays throughout the school day not only makes for a happier environment, it increases reading and math skills, and has proven effect on classroom management!

These song posters include links to versions on Youtube.

Twelve Songs Are Included

• America

• Go My Son

• Ho Ho Wotenay

• Over The River

• A Very Fine Turkey

• Five Fat Turkeys

• I Am Thankful

• Funny Turkey

• Let's Be Thankful

• Turkey Dinner

• Glad I'm Not a Turkey

• Thanksgiving Cheer

All of our thematic units contain songs to bring joy into your classroom. A few units I love to use in November are:

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Writing Center For Thanksgiving

Help young children become writers by having a writing center that is filled with learning activities that are easy to set-up and change! Both you and your students will love the predictability of these writing center activities. 

Vocabulary cards for this packet include 

Thanksgiving Words: 

November, pie, hat, apple, cornucopia, Indians, Native Americans, pilgrim, pumpkin, turkey, family, football, leaves.

Contents include:

• Can Have Are Labels & Worksheets

• Thanksgiving Write a Story Task Card

• Write a Story Worksheets

• Label-It Task Card

• Label-It Student Worksheets

• Make a List Task Card

• Make a List Student Worksheet

• Make a List Word Wall

• Write The Room Task Card- Sight Words

• Write the Room Word Cards

• Write the Room Task Card- Alphabet

• Write the Room Word Cards

• Write the Room Worksheets

• Backwards Words Task Card

• Backwards Words Worksheets

• Backwards Word Word Cards

• QR Words/Letters Task Card

• QR Words/Letters Worksheets

• QR Sight Words

• QR Alphabet Letters

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The Three Bears Thematic Unit will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting.

Who doesn't love The Three Bears! This thematic unit includes fun and engaging time-tested activities. Most are linked strategically to academic Core Standards.

Contents include: 

Shared Reading Lessons

Three Brown Bears: Analyzing Directionality and Word Spelling

Story Element Cards: Analyzing Key Details

Literacy Activities:

A Bowl of Porridge: Naming Letters (Alternate: Decoding Words)

Rhyming Friends: Matching Rhymes

Goldie Comes to Visit: Blending Phonemes into Words

Bear School: Speaking Complete Sentences

Math Activities:

Bear Play: Decomposing Numbers less than 10

Porridge Yum Plus One: Adding one to create a sum that is one larger

Race in the Woods: Comparing Numbers

Sweet Baby Bear: Counting Forward

Three Bear Number Hunt: Writing Numerals to match quantity.

Goldilocks Goes to School: Identifying quantity using Ten-Frames and writing numerals

Art Projects

Three Bear Construct

Goldilocks

Three Bear Puppets

Writing

Three Bear Word Wall

I Can Label It

I Can Write a Story

Writing Prompts: 

The Three Bears

Goldilocks

Social Studies

My Family: A Family Home-Connection Sheet

Guided Reading Books

The Three Bears (Two Levels)

Songs/Fingerplays

Goldilocks

Three Brown Bears

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This family thematic unit is a collection of themed activities that will connect all facets of the Kindergarten, Pre-K, or Homeschool curriculum to family life. All activities are connected to Core Academic standards.

Contents Include:

Literacy Games/Activities:

Family Vacation: Segmenting Words

The Family Reunion: Producing and Generating Rhyming Words

Family Camping: Identifying Upper and Lowercase Alphabet Letters or Naming Letter Sounds

Family Camping: Identifying Sight Words

Animal Families: Fluently Naming Upper and Lowercase Alphabet Letters or Naming Letter Sounds

Animal Families: Fluently Naming Sight Words

Math Games/Activities:

Birth Order: Gathering, Sorting, and Interpreting Data

Family Counting Tree: Addition and Subtraction

Cookie Jar: Counting On

The Family Tree: Matching Quantity and Numerals

Guided Reading Books

The Family

Songs/Fingerplays

With My Family

Families

My Family Tree

Writing

My Family Tree: Scaffolded Writing Lesson

Family Word Wall

My Family: Writing Prompt

Social Studies

Family Traditions: The Patchwork Quilt

Birth Order: Family Combinations

My Family: A Family Home-Connection Activity

Art

My Family: Shape People

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Thanksgiving Activities for every area of your curriculum. 

The perfect cross-curricular Thanksgiving Theme Unit celebrating the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people that worked through conflicts to celebrate a day of thankfulness. 

Are you looking for successful tried and tested activities that will thrill the students in your classroom or homeschool setting.

This Thanksgiving unit is strategically linked to Core Standards! It is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. 

Literacy Activities:

Hop To It: Identifying Letters and Sounds

Hop To It: Reading CVC Words

Turkey Lurkey: Producing and Generating Rhymes.

Turkey Twist: Kinesthetic Practice With Letter Recognition

Dinner Rush: Naming & Generating Beginning Sounds

Thanksgiving Races: Developing Fluency

Rhyming Worksheet

Math Activities:

Turkey Guesses: Making Estimates

A Feast For All: Counting Objects to Show Physical Representation of Numbers

Thanksgiving Feast: Counting Forward From a Given Number in a Set of 10

The Turkey Dance: Identifying Numbers and Recording Results.

Thanksgiving Parade: Ordering 1-10 Ten Frames

The Turkey Bowl: Comparing Groups of Objects

Songs

Gobble Gobble Gobble

5 Fat Turkeys

I Like Turkey

A Very Fine Turkey

The River is Flowing

Rock a Bye Baby

Writing Prompts/Word Wall (Style Choices)

Thanksgiving

I am Thankful For

Thanksgiving Vocabulary Word Wall

Art Projects

Handprint Turkey

Easy Construct Pilgrim

Draw a Turkey

Guided Reading Books

Happy Thanksgiving

Social Studies

Pilgrim Kids: Compare and Contrast Facts

Wampanoag Kids Compare and Contrast

Native American Cultures and Social Study Ideas

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Use these November Themed Alphabet and/or * Sight Word Cards for the Following Activities: