Happy Thanksgiving y'all!! I am so blessed to be a part of this great big blogging community and I'm so excited to team up with two of my awesome friends Fern and Michelle to give you some great products for FREE today!!!

Here is what you can get for free in my store today only {normally $5!}

Click HERE to get your freebie!
Remember that once the product goes back to paid tomorrow, you won't be able to leave feedback.
Now, hop over to my friends' blogs to see what else you can grab for free today!

Also, if you need to get a jump on your TpT shopping to do some prep this weekend, I'm joining some other bloggers and having a 20% off sale for Black Friday in my little shop. {This is Black Friday only, not the weekend}. TpT will be having a Cyber Monday and Tuesday sale next week also where I'll put my shop on 20% off and you can get an additional 10% with their code. {If you're anything like me, you'll shop both times!}

Happy Thanksgiving friends!! Don't forget to count your blessings!

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Vickie

It has been a whirlwind of Thanksgiving festiveness around here! Just a warning that this is a long, random picture post {but with some freebies!!}
We've read lots of stories to work on our sequencing. We usually read the story, and go back in the text to make sure we're sequencing right on our large group chart, then the kids complete their sequencing page indpendently {referring to the chart if they need to}.
We sequenced Turkey Trouble, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, and One Is A Feast For A Mouse. {one I left for a sub and it was the perfect activity for them when I was gone!}

You can get all the sequencing activities above in my Thanksgiving Sequencing Pack.
We also learned all about turkeys this week. We read informational stories, then charted what we learned. We made some turkeys with "real" feathers that I've been making since I student taught and we also made a turkey that we labeled.

You can get this tree map here :)

Keeping with the Thanksgiving fun, we learned all about Indians and the first Thanksgiving with my friend Kristen's pack. {Check it out here}. It has some great informational text! We made these little Indians that I've also been making for-eve-er!

Our lunchroom cooked up an awesome Thanksgiving feast for us and our families and we dressed up like Indians to celebrate. {These are just pillowcases that we cut - they always turn out so cute!!}

Keeping with the "feast-evness," we watched Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and compared the feast that Snoopy prepared with the feast we normally have on Thanksgiving. Then, we had our own feast of jellybeans, toast, pretzels, and popcorn. The kids loved it! They also wrote about what their perfect feast would be.

You can get this writing page here :)

 Last, we made these handprints that are one of my most favorite things to make. The parents love them every year and even though we push academics hardcore, I love sending home a reminder that they're still kids {and still someone's baby}. You can get this here on google docs.

That's all...I'm off to snuggle up with this little love that turned a year old last week!!!

We get all of next week off and I'm soooooo excited! Happy Thanksgiving to you!

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Vickie

We are in full Thanksgiving mode in Mrs. Plant's classroom. Even though Christmas is definitely my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving comes close, especially at school. I love everything about it!
We have our tee-pee up {and please don't send me hate mail about it...I know the Indians at the first Thanksgiving didn't live in them...it's just for fun ;)} and the kids love reading our Thanksgiving books in it!

We've been reading lots of Thanksgiving stories and today read one of my all time favorites!! If you don't have A Turkey for Thanksgiving, you have to check it out! Such a sweet story with a surprise ending that the kids love! We used the book to talk about setting {it's great for inferring the setting because the pictures have good details} and we also used it to practice sequencing. {This is part of my Thanksgiving Sequence Pack}

In ELA, we're working on visualizing, so I got some inspiration from Abby and made this little anchor chart.

Then, I read this cute Thanksgiving poem by Jack Prelutsky {love him!} and had the kids draw their visualization.

We've also been having fun in math with all things Thanksgiving. My friend Deeanna put together some super fun activities for us..
Making 10 with Pilgrims on and off the Mayflower...we played on the floor ten frame first then use individual work mats. The next day, we practiced making 10 with the Pilgrims, but with a math stick.

Another activity the kids loved was using corn to make 10. We used individual ten frames and wrote equations to find how many more we needed to make 10. The kids loved using real corn!

He really was having fun...I promise!

The corn was such a hit that we used it to practice one-to-one correspondence. I loved that one of my sweeties went up and used our ten frames and numbers to make sure she was gluing the correct amount!

We could've stopped there with all the 'corny-ness" {sorry!!}, but my sweet friend Kelley let me get a sneak peek at one of her newest creations and we loved it!! The kids colored part of their ten frame orange and part red to make Indian corn, then wrote their tens fact equation. I even let them use the sharpies - they thought they hit the big time! Her pack is full of tens facts fun, so check it out here!

I also got some help from Caitlin and her November pack, which is awesome if  you don't have it! The kids loved making these Mayflower puzzles to help us practice counting by tens!

This week, we're using some of Deeanna's math activities from her Thanksgiving math pack. Today, we traced our hands to reinforce the number 10 and then ordered numbered Indians on our fingers. The kids loved tracing their hands!

That's it for today...I'm off to get home before dark {I'm not a fan of the time change!!}. Happy Tuesday!

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Vickie

We have had a jam packed week learning all about the pilgrims and we have had so much fun {while learning a lot too!}.
We started the week by reading about the pilgrims' voyage on The Mayflower. My kids thought it was disgusting that the pilgrims had no bathroom or shower on the ship! We made a big Mayflower to hold all of our facts we wrote together during shared writing, then we each made our own Mayflower. We wrote about what we would take with us if we were on the Mayflower voyage. {You can get this activity in Deanna Jump's Thanksgiving Pack}

We also read lots of informational texts about the pilgrims and pilgrim life. We made these super easy pilgrims to hold our graphic organizer {you can get the organizer in Caitlin Clabby's November Unit}.

We also compared pilgrims with people that live today. We used April from Chalk Talk's headers to create our Venn Diagram. Then, we sorted pictures by the time period they were from.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we also talked about all we are thankful for. We started by reading one of my very favorite books {and if you are a mom of a little one, you have to have this book at home as well!}.

Then, we charted all we are thankful for and picked one thing that was our most thankful thing to write about. You can get the writing sheet here on google drive. :)

Last, if you're needing a little motivastion to get your kiddos to learn those pesky sight words, this is a SUPER simple, easy game that my little ones love to play! They beg me everyday to play! All you do it split the class into two teams {we do boys versus girls and are keeping up with who wins the most games now through the end of November}. Then draw some turkey bodies. Each time a team gets a word right, they get a feather. Easy, right? It's also an easy review of counting and more/less.

That's it guys. I'm off to enjoy my 3 day weekend. We're getting Veterans' Day off for the first time ever! Enjoy your weekend!

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Vickie