Thanksgiving Literacy Centers: Kindergarten & 1st Grade

Centers & games · Grades K–1 · PDF, 17 pages · Free

Two Thanksgiving literacy centers for kindergarten and first grade that keep little ones busy all through November. They're simply print, laminate, cut and learn, and each center comes with every piece students need plus a recording sheet and an answer key.

In Beginning Sounds Feather Frenzy, students say the name of each picture feather (corn, pumpkin, wreath, basket and more), listen for the first sound, and put the feather on the turkey with that letter: C, P, W or B. Then they write the beginning letter for each picture on the recording sheet. The turkeys don't all get the same number of feathers, so students have to listen instead of counting.

In Thanksgiving Feast Write the Room, you hang eight numbered feast cards around the room (acorn, heart, turkey, letter, cider, yams, gravy and pie). Students find each card, read the word, and write it on primary lines in the box with the same number.

What's included

• Teacher guide with prep tips and how each center works
• Feather Frenzy student directions card
• 4 full-page turkey mats: C, P, W and B
• 11 picture feathers plus a center label
• Feather Frenzy recording sheet and answer key
• Write the Room student directions card
• 8 numbered feast word cards
• Write the Room recording sheet with primary lines, plus an answer key

How teachers use it

• Literacy centers and stations
• Morning work buckets
• Small-group phonics
• Early finishers
• The week of Thanksgiving

Topics: phonics, reading, foundational, skills, literacy, science, of, thanksgiving, fall, november, centers, stations, kindergarten, prek, elementary, grade, 1, free