So, can you tell that Thanksgiving is not my favorite curriculum? Sorry that you have to suffer for it! I can only take so much of the turkeys and the cornucopias and the Indian corn and the pies…..oh well. That’s okay. I’ll make up for it later!
Speaking of cornucopias…..that’s today’s art activity-a cornucopia collage. Give each student a cornucopia pattern to cut out, or a pre-cut cornucopia. Look through magazines to find pictures of fruits and vegetables; cut them out and glue them to your cornucopias.
Alternately, you could do a “thankful collage.” This is a family project and you will need to ask your parents to send in pictures of family members, pets, friends, favorite toys, etc. You could have each child glue these to a giant cornucopia or just make a poster saying, “Sally is thankful for….” You can go back later and label the pictures. At circle time, look at each student’s collage and talk about who/what they are thankful for and why.
For math, you can do patterns with feathers, Thanksgiving stickers or foam cut-outs, leaves, or candy corn/crème pumpkins (if licensing allows this). Your graphing activity will be tomorrow. For science, you could bring in a real turkey feather (if you can find one). For fine motor, you can use your pumpkin playdough again, or you could make “Indian Corn”-have the students cut out a corn cob shape from white construction paper then glue colored popcorn (lots of grocery stores sell it) to their cob. You could also use blue corn popcorn, which I have found in one of the natural food stores here.
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