Let's Talk Turkey!

We have been gobbling it up in Mrs. Gentile's class these past couple of weeks!  I thought I would share some fun things we do with turkeys.  Some of the ideas can be found on Carolyn's Classroom on TpT.  

Some of the books we have read:

Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving is one of my favorites!  You can add a little discussion about art history by pointing our the similarities of the books illustrations to Van Gogh's Starry Night.

We made some adorable turkeys to hang:

I made this turkey craft years ago for my husband's fourth grade class but as you can see - first graders love making it too.  It has colored tissue paper in the openings of the wings.

We shared where we would hide if we were a turkey and wrote our idea onto a feather.  We then added it to a large turkey in the hall.

We counted by tens in Saxon math and made a "counting turkey feathers by tens" book.

 We also practiced counting by 5's!

In our Journeys reading program, we are learning about antonyms and synonyms.  We practiced by hiding the turkeys behind the correct haystack.

We will be practicing our adjectives and odd and even numbers next week:

The students also shared what they were planning to do for the Thanksgiving holidays.  They made a flap book:

Most of these ideas can be found in my Turkey Time packet.

My next post will be about all our fun Native American activities we have been doing in the afternoons.  We have been studying about different nations and have made wall hangings, pictographs, totem poles.... we will be making salt clay pottery and having Native American games to end our unit.  These are some of the wall hangings the students made.  We talk about the Navajo Nation and I even work in a lesson about symmetry! 

I hope you are having a fun November in your class!