Thanksgiving Preschool

Well there was a lot to fit in and we didn't get to all of what I had planned since we left on a trip...I also didn't get pictures of everything. However, learning did occur and we did have fun! I also brought some Thanksgiving papers/coloring/reading activities for her to do in the car. The problem was she finished them too fast!

I made Natalie a sensory tub with popcorn kernels. She spent a lot of time scooping and pouring.

Cyrena matched turkey feathers with numbered turkeys

We played 'turkey tails'. I laid out a bunch of turkeys with sight words on them. Underneath one I hid a paper pumpkin. We said "turkey tails, turkey tails! One, two, three! Turkey tails, turkey tails! Where could it be?" Then she would pick a turkey, say the word, and check underneath for the pumpkin. This was too fun. I found it here. On that same site, I also printed some pilgrim color word sheets that she worked on in the car--she loved them and called them Jack and Annie because we had just read "The Magic Treehouse Thanksgiving on Thursday" book!

She colored a turkey on a 'color by number sheet' from the same resource as above. I wanted to see if she knew her color words and she does! She continues to surprise and amaze me.

We matched up colored unifix cubes to colored turkeys...

Then stacked the 'like' colors together to see how many of each we had. Cyrena arranged them like that on her own then told me, "I made a stock" She's been watching and learning from her dad's dabbling in the stock market.

The girls made a cut and paste turkey

For Cyrena's she had to write how many of each color of feathers she used, then write a number sentence for it. She liked it! I found this idea here.

We played Roll-a-Turkey where Cyrena rolled a die and drew the corresponding part of a turkey. She was very proud of this!