| November Ideas |
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| I Ate Too Much I ate too much turkey, I ate too much corn, I ate too much pudding and pie, I'm stuffed up with muffins, and much too much stuffin' I'm probably going to die. I piled up my plate and I ate and I ate but I wish I had known when to stop, for I'm so crammed with yams sauces, gravies, and jams, that my buttons are starting to pop. I'm full of tomatoes, and french-fried potatoes my stomach is swollen and sore, but there's still some dessert so I guess it won't hurt if I eat just a little bit more. -Jack Pretlusky |
| Thanksgiving Thank you for all my hands can hold- apples red and melons gold, yellow corn both ripe and sweet, peas and beans so good to eat! Thank you- for all my eyes can see- lovely sunlight, field and tree, white cloud-boats in sea-deep sky, soaring bird and butterfly. Thank you- for all my ears can hear- birds' song echoing far and near, songs of little stream, big sea cricket, bullfrog, duck and bee! -Ivy O. Eastwick |
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| This is one of our favorite Thanksgiving stories. We feed the old lady all of the foods from the story. (There is a clear bag attached to her mouth behind the poster board.) The children either have a food word or food picture to differentiate the activity. After we read the story we make a class book about what we like to eat on Thanksgiving using the word bank for support. |
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| We love to use feathers in November. We measure the length of a feather with pattern blocks and use real feathers in this counting book. The students need to glue however many more feathers are needed to match the numeral in the corner. |
| Native American art and symbols go perfectly with patterning. We make navajo rugs using pattern designs, macaroni necklaces in shape and color patterns and use our drums with beans inside to pound and shake different patterns. |
| Indian Counting Game Find five small, flat stones. Paint a moon on one side of four of the stones and a star on one side of the remaining stone. Children take turns shaking the stones from a wooden bowl or basket. Children get one point for each moon and two points for a star. Each child counts his points and the one with the highest count wins. For younger children, they could count out unifix cubes as a visual connection to the number of points awarded for the moon and star symbols. Thanks to Nora for this game. Click on the picture above for a link to the Little Giraffe's Indian page. |
| Have your kids practice keeping score with tally marks. Each time they drop a turkey stick in the container they mark a tally mark on their score card. Each child gets their own can, 10 turkey sticks and a score card. |
| Use Trix cereal for this center. The kids put the correct number of cereal pieces in the cornucopia. They get to eat the left overs! |
| This fall turkey has real dried leaves for a tail and could be made with the TLC technique. |
| We love to make Native American projects and read Native American stories. Here is a Dream Catcher and a canoe to go with the Red Fox story. We also make pinch pots out of clay. |
| I use Print Artist to make manipulative emergent readers for the kids to keep in their book boxes. The kids match the text to the pictures and read it to a buddy before putting it in their book box. |
| The pilgrim/Indian clip art came from the old macmillian box and we use them to make a fall wreath with tissue leaves and feathers. This little turkey is a card my son made for me when he was in kindergarten. The tail is dot painted with a Q-tip. |
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| We invite our families to a feast for Thanksgiving. We make pillow case vests to wear using stamps with tempra paint and bingo markers. We serve popcorn, pumpkin pudding and corn muffins and each child reads their I Am Thankful For... book in the microphone for all to hear. |
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| This math center game allows the children to practice numerical order. To differentiate you can have the kids put in only odd or even numbers or have them count by 2's or 5's. |
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| For this math game, have the kids roll a di and use a washable or white board marker to color the correct number of turkys on the board. They continue until the whole board is covered. |
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| The kids really like this game. They take turns spinning and add the appropriate color feather until one child collects all of the feathers. |
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| Thanksgiving Colors Orange is a pumpkin. Yellow is the corn. Brown is the turkey With stuffing to adorn. Red are the cranberries. Green are the beans. Five delicious colors- In a feast of my dreams. |
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| These are Buck-Skins made with sunset colors of tempra to go along with "The Legend of Indian Paintbrush" made by the 3's. |
| This is our November quilt. The 4 year-olds made q-tip painted Indian Corn and the 3-year-olds made leaf prints. |
| The 4 year-olds made Navajo Rugs using pastels and carpet yarn for fringe. |
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| Jimkin, jumkin Josh scoops the pumpkin! Based on Joy Cowley's-"The Pumpkin" |