Thanksgiving in Our Classroom

We had a great time in the short week leading up to Thanksgiving!

We found some fun activities to incorporate Thanksgiving into reading, writing, and math.

 Turkey syllable sorting

We made turkey hats! 

And on the day before Thanksgiving, we had our classroom feast.

We each made our own butter and sang to the "Butter Boogie".

The kids loved it! 

We ate our butter on rolls as an appetizer to lunch!

 We all ate lunch in the classroom and really enjoyed feasting with our friends.

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For dessert we made turkey treats using the cupcakes, cookies, candy, and frosting. 

They turned out so cute! 

We'd been working on synonyms and the kids made synonym turkeys.

We sent home turkeys to hide as homework, and the kids did a great job!

Below were some of my favorites!

For more of the activities we did - check out what I found on my November School Pinterest board! 

Thanksgiving 2013

I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

We had a relaxing day with family over at my parents' house.

It was perfect.

We headed over in the morning, watched the parade, visited with relatives, ate a delicious lunch, and played with the kids. Simply perfect.

 Cousins working on crafts!

 My beautiful sister and niece 

 Trying to get a pic with my kiddos!

Harper is looking at me like I'm crazy!

 And Hudson wants nothing to do with me! Ha

 Family and food

 Reagan was so serious about drinking his water out of a wine glass!

Nick loves the movie "A Christmas Story"... so my parents got him a leg lamp. He was thrilled! 

For Thanksgiving gifts for the kids' teachers we put together a few turkey bags. 

Reagan has such fun making them!

 I wrote each teacher a note thanking them for taking such great care of my babies.

And gave each teacher packs of thank you notes! 

Just a little something to let them know we count them as some of our blessings! 

Thanksgiving 2012

I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

We had a fun filled day full of family and good food.

Here is what Reagan shared he was thankful for:

I am so thankful that I got to spend the day with my amazing family who fills my heart with such joy!

We had 3 new babies celebrating their First Thanksgivings which was very exciting!
So much to be thankful for!

 Harper

 Hudson

And my adorable niece Charlotte

Here are some photos I snapped throughout the day:

 Reagan and my BIL Shaun

 My Aunt Marty and Mom rocking the babies.

 My parents with their kids and grand-kids.

 The adult table

 The kid table

 Playing games

 Coloring

 Watching football on the patio

 Aunt Marty and Hudson

 Me feeding Harper

 Nick holding Harper

Sadie holding Hudson

 Playing games

 Catching up

 Cousins

My sister Joc and BIL Ryan with Harper

Nick during our Pictionary game 

I think it was one of the best Thanksgivings to date. I simply love being surrounded by family and laughing until our bellies ache! But now that Thanksgiving is over, I am beyond thrilled for December! I love Christmas season! 

Thanksgiving in the classroom

Thanksgiving was always a fun little holiday in our classroom.

While we didn't do the big feast like the kinders, we had a lot of fun learning about the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Some of my favorite things included Pilgrim children reports, comparisons, and art projects, sequencing the events, Thankful turkeys, hand print turkeys, playing Pilgrim games, etc.

Here are some of my favorite things I've found on many of your blogs that I love this year!

At First Grader At Last, I love her Thankful Plateful project. This could definately be something to send home for homework and have the kids share at school. I also love her thank you notes- perfect for a writing station! 

At First Grade is Fantabulous she has a great printable for your class to do "I am not a turkey". I think this is another fun homework activity for the kids to do.  They have to make turkey disguises and write about it.  There are some adorable ideas on Pinterest. 

Here is another link of Turkey disguises including a parent letter from Fabulous in First: 

As a teacher and mom I would LOVE to help my child do this! 

My kids always love comparing themselves to the Pilgrim children. Chalk Talk has great pictures for Venn diagram comparing. 

First Grade Wow posted an adorable Pilgrim children template and writing paper. It is so much cuter than what I was doing! I definitely will do this next time! 

At Teacher Idea Factory she posted an adorable place-mat idea as well as a Venn diagram to compare a regular dinner to a Thanksgiving feast. So creative! 

Do you have an creative Thanksgiving ideas for the classroom? 

Feel free to post a link in the comment box below! :)