It’s all things Pigeons and Pilgrims in my classroom and
this week we had some Pigeon fun, Thanksgiving-style!
My class had a blast with this little
twist on disguise-a-turkey and we made these Pigeon
persuasive writing booklets from our
Poor Tom Turkey is trying not to get eaten on Thanksgiving!
He’s dressed up like a pigeon and trying to convince
families to eat hot dogs instead of turkey for their holiday meal!
These sound like good reasons to me!
Especially the easy to cook part!
I just updated the file with these additional Pigeon
publishing pages. I’m hoping to use our booklets as a prewriting
activity then have my kiddos write an actual persuasive
writing piece!
If you’ve previously purchased this little unit on TPT, you can
get these pages by going to your ‘My Purchases’ page
and redownloading the updated file.
For some crazy reason, every time my kids sing
Happy Birthday to someone they end it with,
“Eat more chicken!”. Our Halloween birthday kiddos got,
“Eat more candy!”. While we were making our Pigeons
one of my kiddos burst out with “Eat more hot dogs!”
My entire class dissolved into fits of giggles!
And with that I now have a new screen saver that
pops up every time I turn on our SMARTBoard….
pops up every time I turn on our SMARTBoard….
I bought feathers from Michael’s craft store and used masking tape
to attach them to the tops of the pencils for my kiddos to use
during our Thanksgiving unit. They are a HUGE hit!
We’re been using my Mayflower Math Centers this week
and those little quills are flying!
and those little quills are flying!
Here’s how our ‘fleet’ turned out!
We’ll also be using Scholastic’s The First Thanksgiving
site for a web quest .
site for a web quest .
Next week we’ll start Mandy Gregory’s wonderful
Common Core Thanksgiving Unit!
Common Core Thanksgiving Unit!
I can’t say enough about this unit! I used it last year, too
and Mandy has thought of everything! It even includes
a day by day lesson plan with examples of
all of her class charts! LOVE IT!
Here’s one of the charts we did from
Mandy’s unit last year…I used Creative Clips
cute little Pilgrim rather than taking the time to draw one.
Here’s a younger, K-1 version of one of the math centers
we’reusing this week. The perfect little math station for
your Pilgrim and Pirate units!
we’reusing this week. The perfect little math station for
your Pilgrim and Pirate units!
You can find The Turkey Wants a Hot Dog!
all in my TPT shop!
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